Sorry for the long delay responding - got sidetracked to more important things and forgot to keep working on this. Yes I do. nfo and all images are stored with the media files.  I guess the first thing to solve is why movies are still auto-grouping after I've removed the AutoCollections plugin. I've removed the plugin entirely and Emby Plugins page doesn't show it (nor does the log show it loading) but my movies are still being grouped automatically. See below for sequence of event