Lately, I am seeing duplicate movie entries. One is correct with the correct file and title, and another that has the save file, but the title says 1 movie or 2 movies.
Why is this happening? Can I delete the incorrect entry without deleting the file?
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/
Particularly:
There are two common sources for āautomatically addedā collections.
- You may have enabled the
Use collection info from The Movie Databasemetadata agent setting. When enabled (it is disabled by default), that will try to gather collection information from The Movie Database. This may cause many unwanted collections to be automatically created, particularly collections where you only have one item. You can disable that preference in the server metadata agent settings for the āPlex Movieā and āThe Movie Databaseā metadata agents. This will only prevent collections from getting automatically added to items added to your library in the future . It will not remove collections from existing library items.- If you have MP4s with an embedded āAlbumā tag, the Local Media Assets agent may pick it up as a collection. Be aware the Local Media agent also picks up external subtitles, extras, and other embedded metadata in MP4s (and other files), so be aware of this if you choose to disable the agent source.
You want to disable the gathering of Collection Info from TMDB.
We assume if itās disabled in one section it will be disabled everywhere - at least thatās what we hope.
After that:
A Collection Poster is the one that shows ā1 Movieā - you can delete that collection by hovering over the posterās lower right corner, click the dots, delete.
If you have a bunch of MP4s with an āAlbumā tag (or other whacky metadata) - move Local Media Assets to the bottom of the stack of active agents under ALL tabs in Shows and Movies:
Doing that might prevent you having to remove that info manually, for every MP4 file you have - we also hope.
you can also toggle collection visibility (it does not remove or add collections) at the library level.
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Hit the Collections Tab - to show ALL the Collections in a Library. Thatāll make it easier to locate and destroy. If you delete the Collection, the Movie inside it wonāt be deleted.
In the end, Collections are cool - only if you create them manually. āAuto Collectionsā is insane:
to each their own 
I use both auto collections and some customized ones.
also, @ OP if you want to see true duplicates, you do that from the library view, click the āALLā drop down and select duplicates (or one of the other filters).
ā¦as long as I can turn that crazy ā ā ā ā off - Iām goodā¦lol
I agree. I actually find collections fantastic in Plex nowadays (when manually created.)
No sign of them in the movies library but all present and correct in the ermā¦collections tab.
I had the same problem. I will tell you what worked in my case. If you have different libraries that are based on nested folders, click the 3 dots at the end of each library, go to Manage Library > Edit > Advancedā¦ uncheck āInclude in dash boardā, except for the outermost folder. Reset your server. Thatās what worked for me.
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