Episodes duplicated and scrambled watched episodes after adb restore

Help and Bugs
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The issue is with this show (others may be affected, didn’t check):

How to reproduce the issue:
1- Open SeriesGuide with app data.
2- Add show Columbo. You can check how many episodes are and how they are distributed on each season
3- Restore adb backup, then from app select Restore Auto Backup on top.
4- Check again Columbo show. More episodes are added and others are are moved from one season to another or to Special Episodes.
5- Also episodes ticked as watched don’t match with the ones I have really watched and that I properly selected on previous version.

Now I have to clean start and check again one by one which episodes I’ve watched, and tick them again without restoring a backup.

On second post will add screenshots and backup files.

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These are the First Season and Special Episodes on empty profile, just add the TV show but don’t import or tick anything:

First screenshot (Special Episodes):

360×675 18.8 KB

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Second screenshot (Season 1):

360×675 25.6 KB

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Third screenshot (Season 1):

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These are the same screenshots after Restore Auto Backup → Restore Auto Backup → Backup successfully restored:

Special Episodes (part 1):

360×675 37.3 KB

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Special Episodes (part 2):

360×675 36.9 KB

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Season 1 (part 1):

360×675 37.8 KB

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Season 1 (part 2):

360×675 36.3 KB

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This the seriesguide-shows-2021-08-20-10-16-48.json for Columbo TV show.

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The auto backup only runs every 7 days. So if your adb backup is from just before the next auto backup it can’t include your latest changes.

Note: you can run auto backup manually, or create a backup yourself. See Help | SeriesGuide