Movies in collections that I made are missing movies

[ZamBucca1 0]

I have around 11 different collections that I made and a few collections had 50 - 100 movies or TV shows and now all of them have most of the movies missing. Most of the movies I had searched for and added to collections and some I have found in the latest Remux 4k movies, latest movies, etc.

Why would a back up fail? I just received this message?

Emby Server Backup Failed on Brothers of the Phin

9/1/26, 5:48 PM

I have spent many hours building my library. Is there any way to recover them? 

Edited Tuesday at 10:47 PM by ZamBucca1

[Abobader 3515]

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[Luke 43022]

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred:

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Thanks!

 

[ZamBucca1 0]

I am not really sure exactly when it happened. I believe It was sometime in the last week. 

[ZamBucca1 0]

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Edited Thursday at 09:53 PM by ZamBucca1

[ZamBucca1 0]

Has anyone else seen this happen? One day you have a collection the you made have most of the movies removed or deleted? 

[Luke 43022]

@ZamBucca1is the backup issue still happening?

[Luke 43022]

On 9/3/2026 at 5:56 PM, ZamBucca1 said:

Has anyone else seen this happen? One day you have a collection the you made have most of the movies removed or deleted? 

HI, apologies for the disruption. This is not normal. Can you get it to happen again with a new collection? Do you have nfo files in your movie directories next to your movie files?

[ZamBucca1 0]

In the collection I made "0.1 Next up Movies" another movie was missing this morning. When I first put this post here I was down to 11 movies from probably around 75 or so movies. On 9/4/26, I still had 11 movies and this morning (9/5) I only have 10 movies.

Most of my collections I created last September and I add to the "0.1 Next up Moves and "0.2 TV Series" weekly. I put 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 etc in front of all the collection names I made to keep them in front of all the other collections the I didn't make, like A& E, ABC, Adult Swim etc. I have 11 collections that I have made and added movies or shows to and all of are missing movies. 

I made a new collection "0.12 Rocky" and it still has the 8 movies I put in it on 8/31/26. 

How can I tell if I have nfo files in my movie directories next to the movie files? When I added movies to the collection "0.12 Rocky" for example, I created a Rocky collection and added a Rocky movie to it and then changed the collection name to "0.12 Rocky"and then added the rest of the movies to 0.12 Rocky.

[visproduction 369]

Zam,
Double check you are naming the files according to the suggested guide.

 https://emby.media/support/articles/TV-Naming.html?q=FIle name

 https://emby.media/support/articles/Movie-Naming.html?q=FIle name

If you vary from these name directions, Emby could think that a secon Rocky movie is really another version of the 1st movie and combine both together in one movie with a pull down option to go from one to another.  This would result in you only seeing the first Rocky listed.  The 2nd film would be combined into the first media page and you would never see it in a search or in a collection.  This happens automatically if your file naming is not accurate.

I didn't read everything above, but just wanted to mention this as a possible issue.  Go into the media that has a page and look for the other movies showing up in a pull down option for different versions to see if you have this happening.

[Luke 43022]

6 hours ago, ZamBucca1 said:

 

How can I tell if I have nfo files in my movie directories next to the movie files?

HI, just look in the folders next to the files.