GhostRider 46 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 (edited) Hi I had numerous false paths for people and genres in my databse after upgrading to V4 (see https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/71572-upgraded-to-v-403-have-some-problems/page-2 for my original problem). For people this was in the thousands and far too complex to fix using SQL edit via DB view. So I renamed my library.db to library.db.old to delete my library database and did a rescan. All looks better after this but watched status was not restored. Each NFO for a watched movie contains: <watched>true</watched> My questions are 1) should the scan have picked watched status up from the NFO files? 2) How can I restore my watched status? I was thinking of using DB view on the old backup copy of my database then updating in Emby. Can anybody point me to the right place to look for the watched status please? Many thanks Edited May 9, 2019 by GhostRider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37232 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Hi, Emby doesn't read watch data from nfo files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostRider 46 Posted May 9, 2019 Author Share Posted May 9, 2019 Hi @@Luke thanks for the NFO confirmation. Can you point me where to find the watched status in my old copy of the database please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37232 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 There will be a userdata table in library.db. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostRider 46 Posted May 9, 2019 Author Share Posted May 9, 2019 (edited) Thanks @@Luke However I see the movie "name" is some internal key and contains text like 005280d2-a23c-b892-6609-55b5c0f0f600 Is there a way in DB View to create a query that will show movie name and userid name in English text where viewed is ture? With this I can manually tick the movies / episodes in Emby. Edited May 9, 2019 by GhostRider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Luke 37232 Posted May 9, 2019 Solution Share Posted May 9, 2019 There should be a UserDataKey column in the mediaitems table. Our backup guide goes over this: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Backup And if it's missing something, @@cayars can add it. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostRider 46 Posted May 9, 2019 Author Share Posted May 9, 2019 Thanks @@Luke, I was able to use the backup plugin to restore watched status and favorites. A secondary advantage of dropping and recreating my library database is that it is about 1/3rd the size now so I guess will be more efficient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37232 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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