Episodes randomly go missing

[Zenith815 ((Zenith))]

I have a history of episodes just randomly going missing and it’s happened occasionally for the past ten years:

How do I prevent this from happening and/or correct it with the original watch metadata?

[warregubbi (WG)]

I’m assuming it was caused by the same bug described here

Missing Episode - One Piece ep58

There was a bug that unfortunately removed that episode. It was created again after a refresh, so it needs to be manually marked as watched. The bug is now fixed so it shouldn’t happen again.

[Sonply]

Yes, like the user mentioned above, we had a bug last week that removed some episodes. The bug has been fixed, so it shouldn’t happen again.

[Schtief]

@Zenith815

it’s happened occasionally for the past ten years

Same here! I hope this is now gone for good.

[Zenith815 ((Zenith))]

I’ve never used a third party app for activity and only manually mark things as watched, so it couldn’t be that…

[Zenith815 ((Zenith))]

So is the metadata info regarding that watch lost forever?

[Sonply]

Yes, we can’t get that data back. This was an issue that removed a few specific episodes here. In this case, there is nothing to do with third party apps.
If you have any backups, you can check when the episodes were marked as watched in them.

[Zenith815 ((Zenith))]

We can make backups??

[Sonply]

Yes, in your settings.

[Zenith815 ((Zenith))]

Thank you, I had automatic backups set so I was able to restore the missing metadata