TrackRescue guides
Protect, diagnose, and repair YouTube playlists.
Practical guides for understanding unavailable videos, preserving playlist evidence, fixing count mismatches, and making controlled replacements without losing order.
Knowledge base
Choose the problem you need to solve
Repair a broken YouTube playlist
Detect a missing entry, review replacement evidence, preserve order, and keep an undo point.
Recover context for deleted or private videos
Understand what can be identified after a video disappears and why an earlier snapshot matters.
Monitor and back up a YouTube playlist
Choose playlists, capture metadata, detect availability changes, and select an appropriate scan cadence.
Why playlists show unavailable videos
Separate deleted, private, viewer-restricted, and unidentified playlist entries.
Why playlist item counts do not match
Compare reported totals, retrieved rows, identifiable entries, and videos playable by one viewer.
Preserve order while replacing a video
Use recorded positions and live-state checks so a replacement returns to the intended slot.
What a playlist metadata backup should contain
Keep the identifiers, order, observations, and repair evidence that remain useful after a video disappears.
Protect the next snapshot
Do not wait for a title to disappear.
Connect YouTube, select the playlists that matter, and capture useful metadata before an unavailable row becomes anonymous.