Still Issues w Collections and missing data and images

[Ahole 17]

New server setup (my old server had the images for the collections)
I have followed the threads 
No joy

Suggestions?

Edited January 30, 2025 by Ahole

[Ahole 17]

So I finally found the secret that I am sure can be coded into a fix in the app

If you refresh metadata for the entire library OR for the entire collection (no matter how many times) - it won't work

If you go into the Collections folder and refresh metadata for each folder (one at a time) the images will appear.  At first it seemed that I had to refresh metadata for each movie within the collection but just refrashing the folder will work -- see screnshot

[FatherSaint 25]

21 hours ago, Ahole said:

So I finally found the secret that I am sure can be coded into a fix in the app

If you refresh metadata for the entire library OR for the entire collection (no matter how many times) - it won't work

If you go into the Collections folder and refresh metadata for each folder (one at a time) the images will appear.  At first it seemed that I had to refresh metadata for each movie within the collection but just refreshing the folder will work -- see screenshot

Thank you for posting this problem & fix. Searches that lead to descriptions of a problem that someone is having with no details regarding the fix can be so frustrating.

Thanks to a few people here I am SO happy to have my collections perfectly working. In MY case, I learned that a LIBRARY scan does NOT do anything for newly enabled Automatic Collections - you must do a refresh of all the METADATA for collections to show up at all and be right.

I used to manually create collections and have to populate them with the associated movies, manually maintaining / updating them as content came and went. Same thing with manually creating a collection for specific actors instead of just searching for them and finding their movies that way.

For me to have all of that working so well is like Christmas, my birthday and the Easter Bunny came all at once!

Edited February 1, 2025 by FatherSaint
Clarity