# "Add To Collection" option is missing
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [December 22, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619 "2024-12-22T15:53:58Z")
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### Author:  [@jeff.allen.nj](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jeff.allen.nj)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619/1 "2024-12-22T15:53:58Z")
I have “A:\Media$ja\movies\Star Wars\Rogue One (2016).mp4” and Plex cannot handle it. The option to “Add To Collection” is missing and the “Tags” option is missing.
As a matter of fact, there are lots of random movies in my library where clicking on the three vertical dots yields only a handful of options while most movies in my library display about 20 options.
Things that are missing are:
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619/2 "2024-12-22T16:22:00Z")
Can you share what you get to see in the context menu of the movies/items missing those options?
I assume the add-to and related commands are listed in the section above the visible screenshot (for the movies where it’s not missing)?
For some additional clarification:
Are you using the hosted or bundled version of Plex Web – or is this screenshot from a desktop player app? Which versions respectively are we talking about?
Also… with what version of PMS are you experiencing this?
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### Author:  [@jeff.allen.nj](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jeff.allen.nj)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619/3 "2024-12-23T13:29:30Z")
Here are the only options that I do see for many of my movies.
I don’t know what the “bundled version of plex web” or “desktop player app” are. All I know is that I right-click on the server in the Windows system tray and select Open. Plex then opens in Chrome.
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619/4 "2024-12-23T14:19:47Z")
That looks like the context menu of a collection, not a movie. There’s no option to add a collection to another collection.
It can be confusing if you have collections with a single item. Those tend to use the title of their child/item and its poster, which can make them hard to distinguish.
Collections have a 2nd label with the amount of items. Movies have a 2nd label with the movie‘s release year.
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### Author:  [@jeff.allen.nj](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jeff.allen.nj)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619/5 "2024-12-23T14:22:00Z")
As I already stated above. I have “A:\Media$ja\movies\Star Wars\Rogue One (2016).mp4”. If Plex decided to make it a collection instead of a movie, then that’s another problem.
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### Author:  [@jeff.allen.nj](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jeff.allen.nj)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619/6 "2024-12-23T14:23:41Z")
Amazingly, if I delete the collection, the movie magically appears in its place.
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### Author:  [@jeff.allen.nj](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jeff.allen.nj)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619/7 "2024-12-23T14:27:04Z")
This is probably because I have “don’t display movies that are part of collections enabled”. You won’t admit it but this is a significant bug. I now have to Delete all of these “1 movie” collections so that the proper movie appears. I never explicitly asked for individual movies to be part of any collections at all.
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619/8 "2024-12-23T14:46:04Z")
Then best disable the automatic creation of collections or at least increase the minimum size to something bigger than 1 (e.g. 2)
Given that’s the default and you say you never changed it… you might also want to double check if your library is configured to prefer local/embedded metadata. If your mp4 videos have an album tag set, this will also create collections.
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### Author:  [@jeff.allen.nj](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jeff.allen.nj)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619/9 "2024-12-23T15:35:10Z")
Thank you. I never knew there were such options and I never enabled them or set them in any way.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-to-collection-option-is-missing/899619/10 "2025-03-23T15:35:40Z")
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