Sometimes the sites trakt pulls data from change their minds about where episodes go (particularly ‘specials’), and I lose watch history. Since I can’t really do anything about those sites, is there any way to recover trakt watch history of now-deleted episodes?
I feel like if it’s also cleans up and removed on trakt’s end too, then it’s lost. But I’ll let someone from trakt support to confirm that. That’s why sometimes trakt is makes sure it makes sense to delete certain items or not based on TMDB decisions. These usually are shows that have already ended and made its way to a diff steaming platform and that platform changes things around.
We have no way of recovering data from deleted episodes.
Before deleting them, we always try to see if they are listed as another episode or in any other form, if they are, we merge the data with the correct listing.
We only delete them when they really don’t exist, or, if they are specials, they aren’t considered real specials according to the datasource’s rules.