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Collections showing 'ghost' Items - psybernoid - 2025-06-04
Pulling my hair out with this one.
I enabled auto collections, and when generated, it'll place exactly double the amount of items in it.
Looking at the collection.xml in one of the collection folders. I can see why:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Item>
<ContentRating>PG-13</ContentRating>
<Added>06/04/2025 08:26:09</Added>
<LockData>true</LockData>
<LocalTitle>Middle Earth</LocalTitle>
<DisplayOrder>Default</DisplayOrder>
<Tags>
<Tag>Autocollection</Tag>
</Tags>
<CollectionItems>
<CollectionItem>
<Path>/media/Film/The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003)/The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003).mkv</Path>
</CollectionItem>
<CollectionItem>
<Path>/media/Film/The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)/The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).mkv</Path>
</CollectionItem>
<CollectionItem>
<Path>/media/Film/The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (2002)/The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (2002).mkv</Path>
</CollectionItem>
<CollectionItem>
<Path>/media/film/The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (2002)/The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (2002).mkv</Path>
</CollectionItem>
<CollectionItem>
<Path>/media/film/The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)/The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).mkv</Path>
</CollectionItem>
<CollectionItem>
<Path>/media/film/The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003)/The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King (2003).mkv</Path>
</CollectionItem>
</CollectionItems>
</Item>However. The library that's acting as the source is ONLY pointing to /media/Film.
Some time ago, it was pointing to /media/film but that was changed several weeks back. It looks as if somewhere, somehow it's still referencing the old, lowercase /media/film folder. Any clues on how to resolve?
RE: Collections showing 'ghost' Items - theguymadmax - 2025-06-04
Completely remove the library from the dashboard and re-add it. The metadata like watched status will remain even after removing it. You can then run the collection and playlist clean up from the scheduled tasks. That might remove the old entries. If not you you can manually edit the xml files, or just delete the collection folders and have Jellyfin recreate it.
RE: Collections showing 'ghost' Items - psybernoid - 2025-06-05
That resolved it, thanks.