New Plex Scanner and Collections

[don.alcombright]

I ran through the steps to switch to the new scanner. I set my collections to Minimum automatic collection size: 2. My understanding is collections will only appear with 2 or more correct?

If so, after refreshing all my metadata I ended up with more, not less. I see a bunch with 1 movie in them. Did I mess something up?

[tom80H]

Are those collections you had created before?

From a sibling thread:

New Plex Movie agent

Thanks for the feedback on the directors and missing actor images, definitely going to discuss ways to improve this going forward. As for using the “New” collections on an upgraded library it is a bit of a pain because we don’t know if any existing ones were created by the user or not so we don’t want to change those. To get all new collections you have to delete the old ones, but doing so also locks the collection field so you have to unlock those (so we don’t end up adding collections back t…

[don.alcombright]

@New Plex Movie agent Plex Media Server

ve this going forward. As for using the “New” collections on an upgraded library it is a bit of a pain because we don’t know if any existing ones were created by the user or not so we don’t want to change those. To get all new collections you have to delete the old ones, but d

thank you for the info. I can definitely wipe all my collection data, that said one is definitely new as I added the movie the same day i updated the library.

So would the course of action be do:

1. select all collections, delete
2. select all movies
3. edit collection tab to unlocked
4. re-run meta scan?

[BigWheel]

@don.alcombright

re-run meta scan?

refresh metadata. not scan (unless you need it to look for new files).

[don.alcombright]

thats what i meant, my bad. That said, I have no way to select all movies and unlock the collection. thoughts? i figured out i needed to hide collections to select all, however they dont seem to take unlock/lock changes when the field is blank.