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After Restore I have multiple Movies in My Media - elbowwilham - 2025-08-28
I reinstalled Windows 11 on my computer. I successfully backup and restored my Jellyfin. There is only one hitch. There are now 4 movies, listed as movies, movies2, movies3 and movies4. Each option contains the exact same movies. In my Libraries, I only have Movies and TV Shows.
When I select the Movies2 folder to delete it, Jellyfin wants to delete all the media on the harddrive too.
I have attached a screenshot of my home screen.
How do I go back to just one Movies in My Media?
RE: After Restore I have multiple Movies in My Media - theguymadmax - 2025-08-28
When you go to Dashboard->Libraries->Libraries, what do you see there? Is this where you are trying to "delete" items? - The option there is "Remove", which only removes the libraries from Jellyfin, not the media on your hard drives.
RE: After Restore I have multiple Movies in My Media - elbowwilham - 2025-08-28
Thanks for the reply. When I first restored Jellyfin, there were 4 Movie Libraries. I deleted the Libraries, so that now in Libraries it only lists Movies and Tv Shows. But when I go to my homescreen, it still lists the 4 Movies folders. I tried clearing the cache on my browser but that did nothing.
RE: After Restore I have multiple Movies in My Media - theguymadmax - 2025-08-28
I definitely encountered these ghost libraries before.
Try going to the Dashboard and perform a "Scan all Libraries".
If that doesn't work, you have two options:
1. Try removing them by editing the database: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/11937#issuecomment-2148155073
2. Delete the Jellyfin appdata folder and recreate a new library.
RE: After Restore I have multiple Movies in My Media - elbowwilham - 2025-08-29
Using the sqlite solution from the Github link worked perfect
Thanks!