Jellyfin - Next up for series with deleted files

[Varil426]

Hi,

I installed WatchState in hopes that it would fulfill a very specific usecase that I had in mind, but it seems that either I've misconfigured something or I'm misunderstanding the capabilities of WatchState.

Background/Context

I have just one backend - Jellyfin.

When you finish watching an ongoing TV series and a given season ends, you usually have something like 2/3 years of downtime waiting for a new season. In that time, the disk space could be used for something else, so you remove the series from the disk. After some time, the new episodes are up, and I thought it'd be nice for them to show in the "Next up" section, but unfortunately, Jellyfin doesn't remember the watch state of deleted episodes, so it won't show there.

Watchstate

I was hoping that WatchState could mark new episodes to show in the "Next up" section.

I also tried:

1. Marking an episode as played.
2. Importing the state to WatchState (Task: Import).
3. Removing the episode from the disk.
4. Redownloading it.
5. Exporting the state from WatchState (Task: Export).

My expectation here was that the "Played" status would be restored, but that wasn't the case.

I'd like to thanks for all the answers in advance!