Sort type = different # of movies

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I’ve just noticed that if I sort by title Plex tells me I have 1370 movies, but if I sort by any other means (ex: date added) it shows I have 1356 movies. If I count up all the movies in my folders, I get 1354 (I have two versions of one movie that could explain a difference of one, but).

FYI…ExportTools shows 1356

Being the OCD engineer this drives me crazy. Any clue on how to resolve these differences?

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Collections

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I have 14 collections…so are those the additional names?

Bizarre design choice…but thanks!

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if you have enabled collections to show “inline” with your movies, they will also be counted.

you can double-check / change this in the respective library’s advanced settings (Collections):

  • Disabled – collections will be ignored and are only visible when using the collection filter or view
  • Hide items which are in collections – shows only the collections; to access its items you’ll have to open each collection; on your movie library main view this will count the collections but not the items
  • Show items and their collections – shows and counts both: items and collections.

As you pointed out… the inline collections are only included when sorting by title – hence the difference. The number you refer to is not the # of actual movies but the number of visible items.

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I dug into Collections a bit and learned a lot about displaying them. I was about to hide the contents until I learned how easy the new Roku Plex app makes collections visible, so now I hide collections in the listings.

Thanks for the tip.

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Thanks for clearing that up…
I thought disabled would disable collections, that’s not the case it just disables the view.
IMO I think it should get renamed to “Disable View in this Library”

I worked on this for weeks trying to figure out my miss counts, mine were off in the hundreds…

Thats why I responded with “Collections” and no explanation since I didn’t understand the setting really well, and didn’t want to miss inform. But was hoping for someone to jump in and clear that up.

Thanks tom80H

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