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andrewberg:

--- Quote from: marko on September 10, 2023, 10:07:03 am ---... "Move/Copy Fields" does not allow you to copy to the "Last Played" field?

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That's right, the [Last Played] field is not available in the 'Move/Copy fields' target list... which makes good sense as the field is auto-filled at runtime.

andrewberg:

--- Quote from: marko on September 10, 2023, 11:52:03 am ---In anticipation of a "No" answer, here's what you need to do...
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Thank you so much -- in fact I had a similar idea, exporting as .mpl then edit in Excel, but not sure if that works...

Before I go on, what happens to other fields in the process? I always add lots of metadata to movies, will I have to do these all over again? And/or does import create hundreds of duplicates? Thanks!

  ++ Edit: Just did a test on 3 files, and results are good, no duplicates, existing fields fully preserved including the one replaced with 'Last Played' using text editor! Great, now will run again for the rest of files...

One more trick: As 'created / imported / modified' dates are mostly different (often years apart), I would like to only replace the newest date for each file. Can MC detect which of these 3 dates is the latest, and sort files accordingly?

andrewberg:
Update: Since I found no way to find & replace only the newest dates (of either 'created / imported / modified') respectively, I chose to replace all 'Date Imported' fields with 'Last Played'. The result was as desired, as far as I can see... thank you again!

This was one of the occasions where a 'comparative search' feature would help to refine results, e. g. 'Date Created'=</>'Date Imported', but no such feature seems to exist in MC, or does it?

Also, I still wonder how the issue could happen in the first place, and how to avoid it moving forward... Possibly caused by changes to language file, auto tagging, number of plays (used a lot) etc?? Any insight is higly appreciated! ;-)

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