Movie Tracker imports the official data export TV Time provided through its privacy portal. It is a .zip holding a few dozen files, and the app finds the three that matter without your help.

The export is no longer available to request. TV Time provided it through a self-service privacy portal at gdpr.tvtime.com/gdpr/self-service, which closed on 15 July 2026. The address no longer exists.

Many people downloaded their archive while the portal was open, and that file still works: this guide is for you. If you never requested one, there is unfortunately no way to get it now.

What gets imported

• Every episode you watched, with the day you watched it, attached to the right series.
• Rewatches, kept as separate viewings on their own dates.
• The shows you followed, added to your library.
• The movies you watched, with their dates and how many times.

What is not imported

Your ratings, your comments, the emoji reactions, your friends, the notifications and the recommendations. The archive holds all of it, and none of it has anywhere to go in Movie Tracker.

How your titles are matched

Series and episodes are matched by their TheTVDB identifier, which TV Time stores alongside every record. That is exact. Movies are matched by name.

Before you start

Import from TV Time first, before you add shows by hand. Movie Tracker updates a series it already has rather than adding a second copy, but the whole history lands more cleanly on a library it filled itself.

Expect this import to take a while. A TV Time archive commonly holds tens of thousands of watched episodes, and every series in it has to be looked up and built. Several minutes is normal, and the progress counts titles rather than episodes, so it moves in steps rather than smoothly.

Step 1: find your archive

The file is the .zip TV Time sent you, usually named gdpr-data.zip. Put it somewhere Movie Tracker can reach, such as iCloud Drive.

Step 2: keep it as it is

Do not unzip it, and do not rename anything inside. Movie Tracker identifies the three files it needs by their exact names, and a file moved out of the archive is a file it can no longer find.

The archive also contains your access tokens, your device identifiers and your IP addresses. It is worth keeping somewhere private, and deleting once the import is done.

Step 3: import into Movie Tracker

1. Open Movie Tracker.
2. Go to Settings, then Import.
3. Tap Choose Files and pick the .zip.
4. Movie Tracker recognises it as a TV Time export and says so. If it does not, choose TV Time from the list yourself.
5. Tap Continue.

During the import

Movie Tracker reads the whole archive, finds the three files that hold your history, and ignores the other forty. It then looks up every series and every film, shows you what it found, and lets you correct any of it before a single thing is written.

A copy of your library is taken first, every time.

After the import

You get a summary of everything that happened, including how many watched episodes went onto their series, and any title the catalog could not place.

You can save the summary as a PDF, along with a spreadsheet of the rows that need correcting.

If something goes wrong

• The import stops right away with a general error. Check that you picked the TV Time archive and not another .zip.
• Nothing was imported. If you extracted the archive and made a new one, the file names inside may have changed. Use the original download.
• The counter sits still for a long time. It is working. A series with hundreds of episodes takes real time to build, and the number only moves as each title finishes.