Collections giving error, database repair did not work

Server Version#: 1.21.3.4046
Player Version#: Any/All

So yesterday I ran into an issue where my plex (regardless of what player) gives an issue with many of my collections give a “Something went wrong, and unexpected error occurred.” Notification. Now I’m running my plex on a windows 10, on an older computer (for now) and my plex system files are stored on an external drive (with an edited registry) which has been pretty good for the past 3 months (no problems I haven’t been able to solve with alot of cursing and looking at the forums). I ran across a single topic where someone had the same issue back in October of 2020, so I followed the guide to rebuilding a corrupt database, twice actually (accidently did it to a random copy of the server that’s sitting in my actual hd that isn’t actually connected to the program), but sadly it didn’t resolve the problem. It works if I manually delete and recreate a collection, but with some collections being 45-65 movies, that can be tedious and if it happens again I might actually damage my server by providing blunt force trauma to it. I strangely noticed that I had dates of backups up to late January, but nothing since. I double checked the version on my C drive and there wasn’t anything dated, just a basic database file from the initial install. My question is, what now? What can I try doing to get these collections so that they work, hopefully before I give in and rebuild them all. While I don’t mind doing that too much, I want to make sure that if I rebuilt the database that in a week they aren’t going to all start doing it again. I’d attach the logs, but I’m not sure which log set would be most useful. Thank you in advance for any assistance you guys might be able to provide.

Check your collections if they have been set to the ‘Custom’ ordering.
Revert all you can find back to ‘by Title’ or ‘by Release date’.

You’ll have to do this in all libraries separately, even if they contain collections by the same name.

My gods, why didn’t I think to check that. Thank you, you are a hero. It works like a charm.

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