Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a significant issue where a large number of TMDB IDs are showing as deleted in Radarr within the last hour. The "Deleted" tab in Radarr is showing multiple entries indicating that TMDB IDs have been removed from the database. Is this part of a planned cleanup/maintenance by TMDB staff, or could this be a system error? The scale seems quite large for normal database maintenance. I'm trying to understand whether this is:
An automated cleanup process A temporary sync issue Something that requires action on my end
Has anyone else experienced similar mass deletions today? Thanks for any insight you can provide!
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Reply by SirHatchporch
on July 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I'm wondering about this, too. I just noticed Meg White's profile has been deleted recently and I have no idea why. She has several TV and movie credits, so it doesn't make any sense.
Reply by janar
on July 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I'm not a tech person, so I can't say anything in regards to Radarr and automated cleanups.
For what it's worth, I'm not aware of any current official maintenance that includes deletions.
But this caught my attention:
Indeed, that's alarming. As far as I can see, the former page was indeed removed:
https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106969-meg-white
At first I thought a moderator moved the credits to a different profile to merge info.
But - no - didn't happen - don't see her:
https://www.themoviedb.org/search/person?query=Meg%20White
The wayback machine has archived the now deleted page 3 times - the last time on June 12, 2025:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250612181348/https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106969-meg-white
So, between June 12 and now, this page got deleted by a moderator or during an automated cleanup gone wrong.
That's a bummer!
I don't know what to do about it - no tech person.
If anyone finds any other pages that might've been deleted by accident, please add them here.
Update
In general, none of the other moderators seem to know of any automated cleanup of any sort.
So we can't explain what Radarr indicated 2 days ago, sorry.
In regards to the page for Meg White, we can't tell how and why it was deleted.
It was most likely an accident.
I copied the data from the archived page to this new page for her:
https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3309213-meg-white
Reply by Raghavan
on July 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
To be exact Meg White went missing in TMDB daily ID exports exactly on July 9th 2025. And the exports are processed at 07:00 UTC, so it must have got deleted between July 8th 2025 07:00:00 UTC (1751967600) and July 9, 2025 07:00:00 UTC (1752054000).
Excellent work! 🔥
Reply by SirHatchporch
on July 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Wow, thank you. I contributed that profile pic, which I personally cleaned up, and also worked hard on the bio, so I appreciate that you reinstated it. (In fact I think I still have the full-size version of the headshot, if you want me to re-upload it.)
Reply by janar
on July 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
@SirHatchporch wrote:
Yes please!
https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3309213-meg-white/images/profiles
I could only find the copy on the page that's still on Letterboxd here:
https://letterboxd.com/actor/meg-white-4/