How to change the play date of multiple movies at once?

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Hello everyone,

I have a small problem that I’m sure I’m not the only one to have encountered.

After importing from IMDb, I have 2000 movies with the same date.
Is there a way to change the same play date, present in multiple movies (2000), to an unknown date all at once?

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Hi dgw,

I imported my movies from IMDB a long time before the ‘unknown date’ feature was implemented.

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for clarity

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Capture d’écran 2025-11-13 154559
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I find it hard to imagine modifying all these films one by one with an “unknown date”.:smiling_face_with_tear:

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Hmm, that might be a bug indeed. Can you send me the file you imported so I can investigate?

If it is indeed a bug, I’ll fix it, afterwards you can undo the import and re-import it again.

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Hi Seftur,

Hi just send you my CSV file in a private message

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In case of IMDB data, we assume date the date on which you rated it also when you watched something. But I can see how that’s not always something you might want.

To support this, the json/ csv importers now support “watched at” dates that can be set to “unknown". In case of imdb, you can rename some of the items in the header to match the names from the guidelines, and add an explicit watched_at entry. For example:

watched_at,id,rating,rated_at

"unknown",tt1431045,8,2025-03-30

@Starfix_Nova for your case, I’ve sent you back a csv file with those changes made.

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@seftur Thank you very much for this information and clarification; I believe that with all these elements I will be able to find a solution to my case.:+1: :slightly_smiling_face: