Duplicate People

[kbeck 81]

I know there's other similar topics but this one is different from what I could find. Have often had 2 actors with similar names get cross defined. Tonight I noticed I noticed I had 2 Tim Currys. As far as I know thru no fault of mine... Have not intentionally renamed anything to do with him. Checked the metadata on both and all 3 IDs looked the exact same. One has 19 movies, 1 has 22 movies. One created 9/10/24 and the other in 09/25. Not sure how I can merge..... 

[HtRabbit 12]

i just had this issue, what i did to solve it was one by one remove the actor with the older date from the video using the meta editor 

 make sure after you remove the actor that you unlock the actor section(when you remove it it will lock it to try to protect your changes)

make sure to SAVE changes 

 then re scan meta data for the video.

[kbeck 81]

22 hours ago, HtRabbit said:

i just had this issue, what i did to solve it was one by one remove the actor with the older date from the video using the meta editor 

 make sure after you remove the actor that you unlock the actor section(when you remove it it will lock it to try to protect your changes)

make sure to SAVE changes 

 then re scan meta data for the video.

 

Cool. Thanks. For some reason I thought deleting and re-adding the metadata would add the errors back. That automatic locking has caused me a lot of time looking for solutions that didn't need to be. 

[kbeck 81]

On 2/3/2026 at 9:12 PM, HtRabbit said:

i just had this issue, what i did to solve it was one by one remove the actor with the older date from the video using the meta editor 

 make sure after you remove the actor that you unlock the actor section(when you remove it it will lock it to try to protect your changes)

make sure to SAVE changes 

 then re scan meta data for the video.

 

 

I finally got around to finishing this. Worked perfectly.

[kbeck 81]

I had this happen again. Have redone @HtRabbitsuggestion. But removing  a person from 40+ metadatas........ would be nice to have some kind of merge.

[HtRabbit 12]

On 11/3/2026 at 1:16 PM, kbeck said:

I had this happen again. Have redone @HtRabbitsuggestion. But removing  a person from 40+ metadatas........ would be nice to have some kind of merge.

Or maybe an Alias function as i have noticed that some names have a -  and some  do not depending on who updates info.

[kbeck 81]

@HtRabbitwhat I've been doing is if both have different TMDB id#s then I rename 1 to be name and birthyear in metadata edit. Latest one was Thomas Mitchell. 1 born in the 80s and 1 born in 1892. Changed 1 to be Thomas Mitchell (1892) and then had to edit his entries in People to be Thomas Mitchell (1892). Just have to be aware if anything new gets mixed up  I'll need to change.