Maintaining 'Date Added' when files are updated

[Luke 42078]

25 minutes ago, amb13 said:

Got a new development.

I notice that when I delete the old file the nfo for the file is not deleted. So the folder structure is now with the new file:

Some movie (2020)/Some movie 2020 720p DTS.nfo
Some movie (2020)/Some movie 2020 1080p DDplus DTS.mkv

Now I can manually rename that old nfo-file to the same name as the new mkv-file before I scan the library and get the result I'm after.

Is there any way the new file/entry to the library can use this old file and rename it automatically?

Hi, we don't have a built-in way to do that. It would be better to adjust whatever process is downloading and deleting the old file to handle the nfo as well.

[Happy2Play 9780]

The advantage of not having all that additional info in file name is if I replace the media the nfo is still relavent.

Some movie (2020)/Some movie 2020.nfo
Some movie (2020)/Some movie 2020.mkv

[amb13 18]

5 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

The advantage of not having all that additional info in file name is if I replace the media the nfo is still relavent.

Some movie (2020)/Some movie 2020.nfo
Some movie (2020)/Some movie 2020.mkv

Yupp, it would. But still keeping the info in the filename is more important to me than keeping the date added. Guess it is a trade of.

[Carlo 4561]

I agree with Happy2Play. I myself do not include all the "extra" info in the file name.  My movies are named:

title (year).ext

So now I can replace a mp4 with an mkv, replace with an HEVC version and the NFO just works because it still matches the base name of the move which is "title (year)".