# Manual Collection shown multiple times
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627
**Category:** Plex Media Server
**Tags:** server-synology
**Created:** [December 22, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627 "2024-12-22T17:26:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@rala72](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rala72)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/1 "2024-12-22T17:26:01Z")
I’ve a library with several manual collections.
One of them is since last update always shown multiple times, where in the overview the first one hast 10 entries all other 0.
However if I open any of the 0 entry entries all 10 show up.
If I delete one of the 0 entries, all are gone.
Server version: 1.41.3.9314
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 9:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/2 "2024-12-23T09:07:27Z")
You probably need to repair your server database.
> **[GitHub - ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair: Database repair utility for Plex Media Server...](https://github.com/ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair)**
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> Database repair utility for Plex Media Server databases
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### Author:  [@rala72](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rala72)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/3 "2024-12-23T09:34:54Z")
I did now the ‘automatic’ command.
It told me everything is fine - but the duplicate entries are still there.
However thank you for the link, didn’t know something like this existed!
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/4 "2024-12-23T11:29:03Z")
> [@rala72](#):
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> I did now the ‘automatic’ command.
Which ‘automatic’ command are you referring to?
The one that appears in this script? How could you know about it, if you didn’t know the script existed?
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### Author:  [@rala72](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rala72)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/5 "2024-12-23T13:29:51Z")
> [@OttoKerner](#):
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> Which ‘automatic’ command are you referring to?
Yes, I’m referring to the one from the script.
I’m sorry, somehow the quote was dropped in the response before.
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### Author:  [@rala72](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rala72)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/6 "2025-01-25T12:35:14Z")
Anything else I can try?
I used the tool you referred and it’s still the same as before.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/7 "2025-01-25T13:03:59Z")
What happens if you delete those empty collections?
Are your movies stored in mp4 file format? If they are, do they have embedded meta tags in them? And if so, is the `Album` tag populated?
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### Author:  [@rala72](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rala72)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/8 "2025-01-25T13:17:09Z")
> [@OttoKerner](#):
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> What happens if you delete those empty collections?
If I delete one of the empty ones, all get deleted.
> [@OttoKerner](#):
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> Are your movies stored in mp4 file format? If they are, do they have embedded meta tags in them? And if so, is the `Album` tag populated?
Yes these are MP4, but I don’t see an album tag. 🤔
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/9 "2025-01-25T13:23:22Z")
> [@rala72](#):
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> Yes these are MP4, but I don’t see an album tag.
Drag one such file into [mp3tag](http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html "mp3tag") and see if the Album field shows some content.
Are you running your server directly on the Synology, or is it only used as file storage and the Plex server is on a different machine?
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### Author:  [@rala72](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rala72)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/10 "2025-01-25T13:38:30Z")
> [@OttoKerner](#):
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> Drag one such file into [mp3tag](http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html) and see if the Album field shows some content.
I just double-checked and none of the files in this folder (where I also have other collections) has any meta tags.
> [@OttoKerner](#):
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> Are you running your server directly on the Synology, or is it only used as file storage and the Plex server is on a different machine?
Directly on Synology DS423.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/11 "2025-01-25T13:39:58Z")
Did you run the repair script directly on the Synology? (Sorry for asking, but I want to be sure about that.)
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### Author:  [@rala72](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rala72)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/12 "2025-01-25T13:42:23Z")
Yes, as stated on GitHub, and I’m trying right now to do it again just to be sure.
Edit: I did now `stop`, `automatic`, `start` and the issue is still the same.
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### Author:  [@rala72](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rala72)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/13 "2025-01-25T13:53:45Z")
Interesting, now I deleted one of the “empty” ones, and the others stay but just got cleared.
I deleted now all but one and try to add the entries again.
After one entry, no more duplicated collections.
Updating this comment when I’m done.
Update: all entries added and no duplicates!
Not sure what caused the issue, but it seems resolved now.
Thank you very much!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manual-collection-shown-multiple-times/899627/14 "2025-04-25T13:54:31Z")
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