Your Zidoo named “Bedroom” was factory-reset (or you just bought a second player). It re-scanned your
files, re-matched them its own way, and numbered every entry afresh. Nothing in Z-Keeper was lost —
two of its three layers just need to learn the new numbers.
The Zidoo
re-scanned by itself. New IDs everywhere, a pile of fresh guesses, some of them wrong —
and none of your artwork, collections or categories.
✗ starts over
Blueprint
every choice you made for this player, still intact. It points at the old numbers, so
the Sync moves it onto the new ones — nothing is cleared.
⇢ re-keyed, kept
Master Catalog
every identity you ever cemented, keyed to the FILE. A device reset can't reach it —
and it is what the player's matches get rebuilt from.
✓ untouched
No clearing, no setup: the repair starts the way every normal catalog change does — run a Sync. Z-Keeper notices the
reset by itself.
A brand-new Zidoo takes this same path — it just has nothing to forget.
Z-Keeper · Rebuilding a device — 2 of 6
Run a Sync — it notices the reset
Early in every Sync, Z-Keeper asks the player which entry now holds each file — a file's
path is the one handle a reset can't renumber. When the answers have all moved, the Sync says so, and
offers to carry on.
Step 2: IDs
Asking the player which entry holds each file…
It appears Bedroom was reset
631 of the 647 titles Z-Keeper knows on Bedroom now have something else under the same ID.
Continue (recommended): Step 2 has already moved this device's Blueprint
onto the new IDs, curated settings included; the Sync reads the player and brings Z-Keeper's copy
up to date. Nothing curated is lost.
Rebuild: forget everything read from Bedroom and read it again from scratch. Only needed if
the copy looks wrong after continuing.
Stop the syncRebuild Bedroom's copyContinue
The Blueprint moves, it isn't rebuilt.
Its artwork, collections, categories, watched and favorites all ride across onto the new numbers.
A title is moved only once the player confirms its old entry is gone — a rematch is never mistaken
for a renumbering.
The Master Catalog isn't touched at all —
it's keyed to the file path, not to anything the player numbers.
On an older Home Theater app that can't answer the question, the Sync's
Blueprint step offers the same move as a banner — one click, same result.
Settings → Clear local database is not part of a repair any more.
Z-Keeper · Rebuilding a device — 3 of 6
The Master Catalog vouches for every file it knows
The Matched phase compares every pairing the device just invented against your previously approved
Master Catalog (“cemented”).
Wherever the Zidoo's TMDB ID equals the one you cemented, the pairing is provably correct — so
Z-Keeper approves it for you and shows you the list for transparency.
ScanChangesMatchedUnmatchedBlueprint
Verified matches
0
approved automatically against your cement
Needs your review
0
the device disagrees, or matched nothing
Files on this device
647
re-registered from scratch after the reset
1917 (2019).mkvZidoo says TMDB 530915 · your cement says 530915✓
Alien (1979).mkvZidoo says TMDB 348 · your cement says 348✓
…629 moreevery one of them settled without you clicking a thing✓
631 settled without you. Your review list is 3 files long.
Z-Keeper · Rebuilding a device — 4 of 6
Needs your review: a short list, not a library
What's left is what the device genuinely got wrong on its own: a mis-match, a film it
parked as Unmatched, a file it never registered. The Matching tools are right there in the review —
a rematch lands on the player at once, and cements like any other ruling.
BladeRnr-disc2.mkvthe Zidoo parked it in UnmatchedMatching tools
The Cell (2000).mkvmatched to the wrong filmMatching tools
Anora (2024).mkvnever registered by the deviceRename with the year
Your Master Catalog carried 631
of the 647 files. These 3 are the whole afternoon's work — and each answer
is already cemented, so the next rebuild won't ask again.
Then approve the Blueprint step, and the Sync is done.
Z-Keeper · Rebuilding a device — 5 of 6
Compare: give the player back what it had
The matches are right again; the dressing isn't — the reset threw away your posters,
collections, categories and watched marks. The Blueprint still has them all.
Applyeach change is written, then read back from the player
Tick target on the player, press all on its Blueprint, Apply — one tab at a time.
Z-Keeper · Rebuilding a device — 6 of 6
All three agree again
The player, its Blueprint and the Master Catalog
tell the same story — and nothing you decided had to be decided twice.
The Zidoo
every file matched the way you decided, wearing the pictures and shelves you gave it.
✓ in step
Blueprint
carried across the reset — moved onto the new IDs, never cleared, and now describing a
player that matches it again.
✓ kept whole
Master Catalog
unchanged throughout — it's what made the matches recoverable.
✓ the source
Adding a second player? Add the Zidoo, point it at your files, run a full
Sync: your Master Catalog vouches for every file it already knows. Then open Compare
and drag the dressing across from another player's Blueprint — the new player
arrives on day one looking like the one you spent months on.