Is there a way to disable automatic collections

After I installed PMS 1.11.0.4666 on my CentOS machine (which by the way never was offered as Update), to sort my movies in collections, now I have a plethora of automatically created collections like a “The Magnificent Seven film series”, a collection for each sub series of mcu, many collections only containing 1 movie and so on. What i had planned was to sort my movies into collections I created (I had planned things like a “MCU” Collection, “Superheromovies” and so on. Is there a way to get rid of all these automatically appearing ones and only get the collections I create? Otherwise, the whole thing is more than useless and would be ignored.

Alternatively, if there is no way to get rid of these collections, is there a way to remove the feature completely?

https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/

That heled in parts (on getting rid of the automatically added collections), it’s just some work to get rid of alle the single movie collections which were added.
What I don’t get is the following:
“There are two common sources for “automatically added” collections.”
I have neither enabled the “Use collection info from The Movie Database” setting, nor have I any album tags in my mkv Files. So where did these collections come from and is there a possibility, that they will appear again

You have all mkv files? Not a few mp4 / m4v among them?

About 3 years ago, the ‘fetch collections from TheMovieDatabase’ (TMDB) was on by default on new installations. Is your server installation that old?

There are 2 places where you switch off the automatic collections from TMDB.

  • in the properties of the Plex Movie agent
  • in the properties of the TMDB agent

Have you checked in both places?

Since the movies I have are converted from my blue rays, and mp4 was problematic with multilanguage, multi-subtitle files, yes, all are mkv. But since my Server is at least 5 years old, that may be the cause of the whole collections. It might also explain, why only some movies belonging to a collection where in there, while others where not.