I am trying to migrate my movies from one NAS to another. I want to start fresh and I want to have the movies in the EXACT order I had added them in the past.
So I exported all the movies with nfos. NFOs have the <dateadded> property that indicates when they were added to the library. That’s what I want to do. However I cannot accomplish this.
-If I don’t use advancedsettings.xml or use it with <dateadded> value of 1 then the library ignores the nfo’s <dateadded> (not to be confused with the advancedsettings.xml <dateadded>) and the library gets populated with an order respecting only the file’s modified timestamp – not wanted
-If I use advancedsettings.xml with <dateadded> value of 0 then neither the nfo’s <dateadded> property or the file’s modified timestamp is respected, the files get added with alphabetical order – not wanted
-If I use advancedsettings.xml with <dateadded> value of 2, hell breaks loose and again neither the nfo’s <dateadded> property or the file’s modified timestamp is respected, ctime in windows is a strange thing so when using windows avoid this option at all costs – not wanted
Basically there is no option in advancedsettings.xml that would respect the nfo’s <dateadded> property. So my questions are:
1. Why is this tag exported anyway if it will never be used when importing?
2. Is there a way to use the nfo’s <dateadded> tag when importing the library?
3. If all is negative is there any utility to set the files modified attribute to that of the nfo’s <dateadded> tag?
Thanks