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    Jellyfin Forum Support Troubleshooting SOLVED: After Restore I have multiple Movies in My Media

     
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    SOLVED: After Restore I have multiple Movies in My Media

    After Restore I have multiple Movies in My Media
    elbowwilham
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    2025-08-28, 02:07 PM
    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?


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    2025-08-28, 04:42 PM
    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.
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    2025-08-28, 04:48 PM
    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.
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    2025-08-28, 05:17 PM
    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/iss...2148155073
    2. Delete the Jellyfin appdata folder and recreate a new library.
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    2025-08-29, 02:42 PM
    Using the sqlite solution from the Github link worked perfect

    Thanks!
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