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How to exclude a specific movie from being added to collections


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sectune

Dear all,

 

Thanks for reading this first of all, I hope you can help me. I have searched the forums but did not get an answer to my specific problem.

I have three movies which the Autoboxsets Plugin has added to one collection, let's call it "Collection A". I have deleted this collection and added these three movies to a "Collection B", where I think these movies fit more. All movies I have are in one movie folder with separate folders by movie names inside. Now when I do a library refresh the Autoboxsets plugin adds these three movies to the "Collection A" again (re-creates this collection once more from scratch). So now I am having these three movies displayed in both Collections A and B.

Is there any other option to lock these movies just to the Collection B and make the Collection A never to be created again?

I have read about the parential control setting "solution" but I feel that this solution is messy and would require me to perform this for all users I have :(

 

Can anyone here share his thoughts on how I can solve this in a different way? Thank you!

 

#Emby 3.2.20.0 on Qnap TVS-671

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Happy2Play

Remove the "TheMovieDb Collection Id" in metadata manager for each movie.

 

Note if you ever refresh these movies or library the "TheMovieDb Collection Id" will be readded.

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sectune

Remove the "TheMovieDb Collection Id" in metadata manager for each movie.

 

Note if you ever refresh these movies or library the "TheMovieDb Collection Id" will be readded.

 

Thanks a lot for the reply, but wouldn't that mean that I would get this collection added back as soon as I f.e. added a new movie (as library needs to be refreshed)? Can I lock this field in the item database for these three items somehow, so that this field will never be filled again? Would putting the local. nfo files to "write protect" inside the file system on my NAS work to prevent it being changed?

 
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Hi, the boxset plugin is designed to be automatic so I'm not sure there's a way unless @@ebr has any tricks he can share.

 

What I might suggest is now that you've had your boxsets created by the plugin, you could just uninstall the plugin and manage them manually from here. You won't lose the ones that have been created.

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Thanks a lot for the reply, but wouldn't that mean that I would get this collection added back as soon as I f.e. added a new movie (as library needs to be refreshed)? Can I lock this field in the item database for these three items somehow, so that this field will never be filled again? Would putting the local. nfo files to "write protect" inside the file system on my NAS work to prevent it being changed?

 

 

 

Adding a new movie does not Refresh the metadata for existing movies.  But if you have set the per library "Automatically refresh metadata from the internet" then yes there collectionid will get replaced.

 

There is no specific lock field for "TheMovieDb Collection Id".

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Dear all, just to update my own thread - the items I would like to have in a different collection now remained as they are by removing the collection id as proposed, removing the old collection, adding them to the new collection and selecting "lock item for future changes". It now even survives any library refresh even with boxsets plugin still running.

 

If this is a bug, please don't fix it :D

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