Lost recently added album after a rescan

[simoncn]

Thanks for this detailed description of the events leading to this situation. From this description and from the files you posted, I am sure the problem is caused by a change to the ordering of folder scanning in the Linux filesystem when you did the copy 2 folders / delete 2 folders / copy 4 folders sequence. This caused MinimServer to incorrectly detect some folders as new that are not in fact new.

I have a fix for this problem but testing it is a challenge because of the difficulty in creating the unusual situation where the folder scanning order changes. I will try the copy/delete/copy sequence you have used to see if this enables me to reproduce the problem and test the fix.

If you stop MinimServer, delete the added-dates.txt file and then restart MinimServer, this should restore some of your lost "recently added" information. This will use "last modified" dates to rebuild the "recently added" information, which should produce a result that is fairly close to the correct "recently added" dates.

When you do this, you might see some incorrect entries for files you have retagged recently but are not recently added. You can remove these by stopping MinimServer, manually editing the added-dates.txt file to delete any lines for retagged files, then restarting MinimServer.

Alternatively, if you have a recent backup of the added-dates.txt file, you can stop MinimServer, replace added-dates.txt with your backup and restart MinimServer.