# Plex auto generating collections **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [February 29, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-auto-generating-collections/137129 "2016-02-29T01:52:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alanquillin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@alanquillin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/alanquillin)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-auto-generating-collections/137129/1 "2016-02-29T01:52:10Z")
So every time I add a movie a collection for that movie is also added. While this is not a problem, it is annoying. Whats worse, it that I remove these auto added collections, every once in a while, they are all added back. Whats weird is that I dont understand what it uses to create the collections, cause some of them are strange. Is there a way to keep this from happening? ---
**Author:** ![sGarver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/sgarver/32/3939_2.png) [@sGarver](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sGarver)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-auto-generating-collections/137129/2 "2016-02-29T02:11:53Z")
Under Settings for Agents, Movies, The Movie Database, click on the gear icon to the right of the The Movie Database entry and Un-check the “Use collection info from The Movie Database”. This should stop new automatic collections from being added, ---
**Author:** ![NLDer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/nlder/32/15988_2.png) [@NLDer](https://forums.plex.tv/u/NLDer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-auto-generating-collections/137129/3 "2016-10-12T13:33:46Z")
I’m one of these people that want the automatic collection creation done…however it does not seem to work . Having to have rebuilt my media server I lost the installation and config files for plex. I reinstalled, and now I have no collections at all… I have over 4TB of movies, … is there anything else I should be doing other than the above advice from sGarver which obviously used to “enable” the service. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-auto-generating-collections/137129/4 "2020-01-07T21:06:26Z")