Movies and Shows in Collections are not hidden but setting is activated

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Hi,

I have several Collections on my Plex Server. I activated the Setting “Hide Items in this Collection” to all of them.

But it seems that this does not work for Smart Collections.
Everything which is in a Smart Collection will still be shown in the Library.

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EDIT; oops! - I misunderstood what you’re trying to do. Disregard my comment

I have fourteen smart collections in my Movie Library, a half dozen smart collections in the TV library, and none of them show up until I deliberately navigate to the Collections tab.

I think you have to set the option to just “Hide Collection.” Setting it to “Hide Items in this Collection” will hide all of the items in the collection and therefore display the Collection, The Movies/TV shows won’t be visible until you open the collection.

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No i set all collections to “Hide Items in this Collection”.

I can see all collections in the Library Tab. But besideds the Collection the Items are not hidden.

I just checked and its even the same with normal Collections.

For example i have a Deadpool Collection with both Deadpool Movies.

Deadpool 1 is hidden in the Library. Deadpool 2 is not .
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Here you can see Deadpool 2 is visible in Library , but Deadpool 1 is not :

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And also all these other movies should not be visible as they are all in Collections (either Smart Collections for something like Genre or manual Collections for Prequels/Sequels)

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Are the affected movies part of not one, but several collections?
And if so, how are the visibility settings of these collections?
How is the general collection visibility setting on the library level selected?

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All my Movies are Part of at least one ( a lot of them two or more) Collections.

I have the Library itself set to “Hide Items in Collections” and on top set all the Collections to the same value (Hide Items in this Collection)

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Push!

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I had an issue where my collections weren’t displaying properly. Collections showing in the library view or regular movies showing under the collections tab. Honestly, I can’t remember but it was messed up lol

The solution for that was to go to settings –> debug –>restore defaults

The warning sounds ominous but all I had to do was repin my libraries

It was a slightly different problem but might be worth a shot if nobody else has any ideas

The only thing that sounds unusual to me is having the library set to “hide collections” AND the individual collections. If that’s how the library is set, then “library default” should be the correct choice for the individual libraries.

I assume you tried that after the library setting wasn’t working?

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