I have deleted a movie collection from the collection tab by mistake, how do I get Plex to scan it back in?

If it was a collection in the Collections tab then the movies are still in your library and you will just need to rebuild the collection manually. If you’re referring to a few movies in a series, e.g. John Wick 1-4 then you will want to run a scan on the library to pick them back up (assuming they …

It sounds like the automatic collection creation is disabled or the threshold isn’t being met. But also collection matching is hit and miss for me so I make them all manually. Do the movies appear in the library if you search for them?

Yes they do, mide you I created a Collection manually for Chuck Norris, 23 movies, I guess Chuck Norris movies are not collections, I did remove Chocadile Dundee, 3 movie collection under the collection tab created by Plex, but that didn’t come back either. Maybe I should delete my Movie folder and …

I’ve found with the new Plex movie agents collections are… not as accurate as they were before… Sometimes missing altogether, and sometimes they have unexpected names. I suggest you just add the collection back manually in collection tag on each movie. It shouldn’t require a scan at all.

Hold up! When you delete a collection, Plex deletes the “Collection” tag in the movie itself, and LOCKS THE FIELD so it won’t get the collection back again. Find the movies that were in the collection and edit them to unlock the field. Then Refresh Metadata on your movies (only those movies, or y…

All goods, I ended up removing Movies and adding again, once the metadata was completed, I just added certain Actors manually to a collection WOW Jean-Claude Van Damme made 36 movies

Collections for a certain actor or director are easier created with a filter. Saving that creates a smart collection, which updates itself once items come or go that fit the filter criteria. They are also independent from the “Collection” field in each item’s properties. Their disadvantage is that…

Yes I have noticed the collections are all over the place now, I have separate folders called Animated Movies and Movies and now the same collections are appearing in both, I guess the Movie folder collections and not showing up in Aminated Movies folder.

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claynz June 24, 2025, 12:56am 3

Yes, they are still on the disk, I have tried the following

Plex Dance
Scan Library Files
Refresh All Metadata

And not appearing back as a collection

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