archive.txt import

Already have a youtube-dl / yt-dlp download archive? Channel Vault NAS understands the classic ledger so you can reconcile an existing collection instead of re-downloading everything.

The classic workflow

The traditional command records every downloaded video ID in a text ledger:

youtube-dl --download-archive archive.txt "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=..."

The app workflow

In Channel Vault NAS, that same archive.txt becomes a guided reconciliation:

1. Paste or drop archive.txt into the import panel on the Channels tab.
2. Preview the parsed rows — already archived, known missing, unknown, duplicate, and invalid entries are separated for you.
3. Stage only the videos that still need records or candidates.
4. Sync metadata for placeholder rows so titles, dates, and sizes fill in.
5. Queue/download only the fresh candidates — nothing already in the ledger is re-fetched.

Reconcile an existing NAS folder too

You can also rescan an existing archive folder and index it without moving any files. See the Filesystem contract for the expected layout — the database indexes the filesystem, not the other way around.

Safe by default

Importing a ledger never starts real transfers on its own. Downloads still go through the guarded confirmation and the configured per-pass batch size.