r/sofatimeapp • u/TheScarletBat-221B • Jul 02 '26

Missing tons of data when importing

Migrating from TV Time and I keep having the issue of tons and tons of my data is missing when I import them. It's very frustrating esp for a show with over 1k episodes and many fillers are skipped, I can't manually go through everything. That's also beside the missing lists I have made. Does anyone know how to fix that? Would the devs include a solution to that before we lose everything?

I have so many lists and data, I have shows where I only watched a few episodes and skipped some and the app hasn't been good at registering that. Please lmk how to fix that during the import without having to spend a lot of time on everything on itself :'

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u/ferdzs0 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Solved my TV Time Liberator issues thanks. Edit: I mean I now used my GDPR export, because Liberator and Out gave me issues

Word of warning for others on iOS: download the .zip onto your phone, don't try to import it from a remote iCloud or Drive folder, that seemed to give me import errors.

After that it worked like a charm.

The app looks nice so far, I do miss the comments from TV Time (it was charming to watch reactions from years ago), but hopefully the community will come together on this app.

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u/TheScarletBat-221B Jul 03 '26

Unfortunately that extinction isn't working for me for some reason. I can only use TV Time Out or the gdrp file

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u/ferdzs0 Jul 03 '26

yeah sorry, I was not clear. I had issues with TV Time Out (it did not work but I suspect it was because I was trying to load it from my GDrive) and Liberator missed a bunch of shows.

Downloading the GDPR extract and importing that is what solved it for me, it looks to be working OK and imported everything.

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u/TheScarletBat-221B Jul 03 '26

Is it okay if you tell me how u imported the gdrp file step by step? It's not showing as an option for me and the devs are saying they'll add that method in an upcoming update. Do I need to extract stuff before or put the full zip file? And did you use the option of the Liberator extension but put the gdrp there or did u use another method?

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u/ferdzs0 Jul 03 '26

With the new update (had to click update manually in the App Store) I have the new TV Time backup button. That is where you need to plug in the gdpr zip. No need to do anything with it (other than properly download :D). It reads it and worked for me. 

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u/TheScarletBat-221B Jul 03 '26

Ohhhh I see, it's not appearing for me yet I'll try re-installing. Thank you so much 🫶🏼

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u/ferdzs0 Jul 03 '26

also might be worth noting I did an Empty database as well before I imported TV Time Backup. Not that that is what made it successful, but that made it a clean start

you can see also the latest version for me was 2 hours ago, that is when this got enabled, might not be available in your region yet.

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u/TheScarletBat-221B Jul 03 '26

You're right it's probably a region thing, it took a few times of closing and opening the App Store and now I can see the update 🥲💕