Multiple instances of the same collection

[Andythediver 0]

Ok this is driving me crazy!!! 

Ive been using emby on my laptop for months. Initial setup was super easy - in short, it just works.

 

With the help of this forum, Ive now managed to create another server - this time on an xpenology Nas - via docker.

 

Initially, all looked great - but now -its driving me crazy!!!

 

i created some collections - lets call them airport, carry on, james bond & star wars.

 

after allocating the films to their collections, all looks great. BUT if i return to look at the collections home page a few hours later, I have 11 copies of james bond collection, 2 copies of airport collection, 4 copies of star wars collection - yet only 1 copy of the carry on collection.

 

so - i delete all but 1 of each - and they ALL disappear!!!! - so i recreate said collections and they all ook good again for an hour or so and then we,re back to the beginning -multiple instances again.

 

ive been chasing my own backside for 3 days now - any ideas anyone?

 

[Diedrich 377]

Devs will probably ask for server logs. In the meantime you should look at the collections.xml file to see if there are truly duplicates in there.

[Luke 42077]

@@Happy2Play wasn't there another topic about this?

[Andythediver 0]

yup - went 1 step further and deleted collections xml - rebuilt about 2 hrs ago and currently - its behaving itself ......... im not convinced yet .... watch this space

[Happy2Play 9780]

Here is a post about it on 4.2.0.40 on Synology.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/75991-collections-driving-me-crazy-whats-wrong/

[Andythediver 0]

spoke too soon! its Fubared again over night!!!!

 

followed the above link and yes thats exactly whats happening to me - with the exception that i can access the collections folder from within the metadata folder. [currently, there's no solution been posted as the guy seems to have escaped brexit by running off to italy lol]

 

Ive tried deleting them all and starting again - for a while it looks ok - than off it goes again!

Any Ideas guys? the ony thing thats consistent is the inconsistency!

each time I start over - its different collections that are affected - though seems more prevalent to ones with more movies in.

[Luke 42077]

Do you have the auto boxsets plugin installed?