Empty collections stay in the list

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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If I untag all movies in a collection, isn’t the collection supposed to disappear?
I got several collections in my movies list showing “0 movies”.

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Having the exact same problem, this is not a Mac issue, my server runs on linux.

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OK, found the solution to do it manually here: forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1591628/#Comment_1591628
I guess for now it won’t happen automatically.

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Great, thanks.

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just delete the collection https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/

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@BigWheel said:
just delete the collection https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/

Is there any plan to allow deletion of collections without “Allow Media Deletion” needing to be turned on? I never have that on because I don’t want to risk anything being deleted accidentally. This means that to delete a collection I need to turn the option on, delete the collection, and then turn it off, which risks me forgetting to turn the option back off.

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Or how about write code that is smart enough to not show collections with zero movies all over the place. Jesus Christ…

I also don’t want to see collections where I have only one movie. Nobody on the planet is ever going to watch Caddyshack II.

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This should be done automatically while emptying trash.
Collections are a great feature but ended up disabling them because I was left with 30+ empty collections just staring at me blankly.
Just imagine that you have to manually delete every series with no episodes.

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I see your point but it’s actually different.
At the moment, users have to manually manage the metadata and posters for their collections – you don’t want that to be gone in a snap when clean up your collections.

There’s an easy way to get rid of all your empty collections:

  1. open Plex Web and open the library you want to clean up
  2. change to Collections view
    web-library-bycollection.png
  3. multi-select all the collections you want to delete (I don’t have a proper screenshot at hand… basically it’s the same as multi-selecting regular items
  4. click ... in the library bar and then Delete
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Thanks for your reply.

I know how to do it manually, I was just saying that there should be a way for Plex to automatically / option to enable this feature. I like to setup things in a way that require a minimum of manual daily/weekly maintenance from me.

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a “remove empty collections” button/option would be a very welcome thing, yes

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Here is a python script that you can run what will delete collections that have 1 or 0 items. Set it as a cron or task schedule for automation.

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Cheers for this!

Still - this should be something that Plex does by itself…

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It surely should be an option inside Plex to [x] not show playlists with lesser than 1 or 2 movies .

I have no clue how and where to run that python script, and surely don’t want a script to delete something from the Plex database.
(Which does not mean, I do not trust the author or the script. Its easy to read/understand, but thats all I can say. Administrate a script to run on several servers which are win7/synology and qnap seems a little bit too complicated for someone who just wants to enjoy Plex)

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