Keep Watched status when movie is move to another show folder

[lalajee 2]

Hi,

I have tv show with fake IMDB numbers but when I watch the show it marks it as watched but when I move any of the watched show into another show it unmarked it as not watched.

is it possible to keep the watched statues even if the file is move into another folder/show

The fake IMDB never changes

[Carlo 4561]

Hi, why are you using a fake IMDB number?

That sounds like a recipe for problems.

[Luke 42085]

Hi, it should keep the watch status.

[Carlo 4561]

3 hours ago, lalajee said:

Hi,

I have tv show with fake IMDB numbers but when I watch the show it marks it as watched but when I move any of the watched show into another show it unmarked it as not watched.

This I do not understand.  What exactly are you trying to do?

[lalajee 2]

3 hours ago, cayars said:

Hi, why are you using a fake IMDB number?

That sounds like a recipe for problems.

The show I have are not listed on IMDB, I need to keep the watched status when moving the files and one of the things I was told to create all of the xml file with fake imdb.

Once i created the fake imdb for all of the files and when I move the files it kept the watched statues.

[lalajee 2]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Hi, it should keep the watch status.

It keeps the watched statues if the file is not part of an tv show but when you move the file between tv show it doesnt keep the watched status

[lalajee 2]

This is what i'm trying to do.

 

I have an TV show called "Show 1" inside that TV show I have 4 season, each season has 10 episodes

When I watched the Season 2 episode 10. It marks it as watched and Even if I move the show (without changing the show ID) it still remembers it as watched episode

But

When I move that episode to another TV show called "Show 2 (show 2 has different IMDB ID)" it marks it as not watched. Even the episode has same ID as "Show 1"

I never change the IMDB id on any of the episodes 

[Carlo 4561]

IMDB has nothing to do with this.

Emby Server will essentially use the showname/season/episode for watched status so when you move an episode to a different show it's now [sic] a different Episode to Emby.

Edited July 5, 2021 by ebr
typo correction

[lalajee 2]

1 minute ago, cayars said:

IMDB has nothing to do with this.

Emby Server will essentially use the showname/season/episode for watched status so when you move an episode to a different show it's not a different Episode to Emby.

But episode has Unique ID, I though it follow the id not what show or movies set the file belongs to.

[Luke 42085]

Check the tvdb id's before and after and ensure that they are consistent.

[ebr 16194]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

Check the tvdb id's before and after and ensure that they are consistent.

There are not tvdb IDs and he's moving an episode between "shows".

As Cayars pointed out, for TV the watched status is kept based on show/season/episode so, if you move a file from one show to another it is now a different episode because it is now a different show.

[lalajee 2]

3 hours ago, ebr said:

There are not tvdb IDs and he's moving an episode between "shows".

As Cayars pointed out, for TV the watched status is kept based on show/season/episode so, if you move a file from one show to another it is now a different episode because it is now a different show.

I was hoping it might have been possible to follow ID not the tv show/season