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[paulrr01]

I use my MC 'system' for curating tags etc and for casual PC listening - this has been stable for years and working fine.
I use the 'Recent Albums' view to confirm albums are imported and that all looks ok. Works fine for how I use things.
However, something odd has happened - it looks like a lot (200+ albums) of my library has had a date imported set to 20/08/2023 @ 23:22.
I have imported some albums since then and have a backup from 20/08/2023 @13:28 (i.e. approx 10 hours earlier). Those that I recognise as having imported since have a correct import date - this is only about 6 albums.

Does the following process seem like it may get me back to my normal situation?
1, take a backup as of now and make no changes to MC as an insurance
2, restore backup from 20/08/2023 @13:28
3, run 'auto import'

I'm hoping that the auto import will pick up any albums NOT in the restored db and re-import them (i.e. genuine 'new' albums will be imported now).

I'm also guessing I may never find out what has happened - I do know for sure I didn't import 200+ albums.
Many thanks
Paul

[JimH]

Are they on a removable drive?

[paulrr01]

No Jim, on a Synology NAS. No changes on there, no new disks, no updates etc.

[JimH]

Search for "Fix Broken Links" in Settings and change it.

[paulrr01]

No problem with links or locations.
Problem is as described originally - 200+ albums have a 'new' date imported.
Question I have is again in the original post -  i.e.

"Does the following process seem like it may get me back to my normal situation?
1, take a backup as of now and make no changes to MC as an insurance
2, restore backup from 20/08/2023 @13:28
3, run 'auto import'"

[marko]

No problem with links or locations.
Problem is as described originally - 200+ albums have a 'new' date imported.
Question I have is again in the original post -  i.e.

"Does the following process seem like it may get me back to my normal situation?
1, take a backup as of now and make no changes to MC as an insurance
2, restore backup from 20/08/2023 @13:28
3, run 'auto import'"

Yes. That should get you back on track. However, unless you already know what caused this issue, you should also be looking to prevent this happening again in the future, which is why Jim mentioned...

Search for "Fix Broken Links" in Settings and change it.

This won't work though, because the setting referenced is part of your 'Auto-import' setup, and that's not covered by the settings search. It's in the list of auto-import 'Tasks', and should be set to "protect files on missing drives". If it is already, then the reason for your wierd import dates lies elsewhere.

-marko

[paulrr01]

Thanks Marko for the confirmation of my approach being ok.

To clarify, ALL my media files are in one location on a NAS (M:\Music\<artist>\<album>

The rogue 200+ albums are not new, have'nt had any tags changed, have'nt moved folders.

I also have Logitech Music Server running on the NAS to serve Squeezebox Touch, this shows the correct view of recently imported albums (i.e. the 200 are NOT recent imports).
This very strongly suggests 'something' has happened within MC around the time mentioned above, it's never happened before and my hunch is that I'll not find out how it's happened......