what is: "Unconfigured Mass Collection Mode to hide for Filme Library" ?

[gitttt54]

Hi,

I found this in the meta and library logs:

[2023-01-09 12:17:42,766] [operations.py:802]         [INFO]     |===================================================================== Unconfigured Mass Collection Mode to hide for Filme Library ======================================================================|
[2023-01-09 12:17:42,769] [operations.py:803]         [INFO]     |                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
[2023-01-09 12:17:42,775] [operations.py:864]         [INFO]     |                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
[2023-01-09 12:17:42,778] [operations.py:865]         [INFO]     |========================================================================================================================================================================================================|
[2023-01-09 12:17:42,780] [operations.py:865]         [INFO]     |                                                                                   Finished Filme Library Operations                                                                                    |
[2023-01-09 12:17:42,783] [operations.py:865]         [INFO]     |                                                                                      Operations Run Time: 0:44:33                                                                                      |
[2023-01-09 12:17:42,786] [operations.py:865]         [INFO]     |========================================================================================================================================================================================================|

Would anyone have an idea, what this means?

Why "unconfigured"?

Did I miss something in my config (in which I try to hide all collections) ?

libraries:
  Filme:
    library_name: Filme
    metadata_path:
    - file: config/mm-Filme.yml
    operations:
      mass_collection_mode: hide
      delete_collections:
        less: 2
        managed: false

Thank you.

[meisnate12]

basically you have mass_collection_mode on and while it runs through your configured collections it sets them to hide then during operations any collections you dont have defined in a metadata file will be changed to hide at that time

[gitttt54]

I tried hard to understand you single sentence, but failed.

I tried to split the information into single pieces:

basically you have mass_collection_mode on
and while it runs through your configured collections
it sets them to hide then during operations
any collections you dont have defined in a metadata file will be changed to hide at that time

but I don't the the last part.

I have set up TMM to hide all collections, yes.

But why should TMM hide all collections, I don't have defined in a metadata file?

What would be a usecase for this?

I really don't get it. Sorry!

[meisnate12]

what mike said below; its mainly for people who want to ensure every collection in their library is a specific collection mode. p.s. btw its PMM not TMM if you're talking about this software.

[gitttt54]

Sorry for the typo! You're correct. I mispelled it.

[mikenobbs]

mass_collection_mode sets the mode of every collection in your library, not just the ones you've configured with PMM. So after its run through all your PMM collections the operation sets the rest of your collections, the "unconfigured" ones, to hide also. It's just a way to change all collections at once without using the Plex UI.

[gitttt54]

Thank you very much for your patience :-) I think I'm getting the concept behind all this now.
PMM is a very complex tool and I'm just scratching the surface...
Sometimes its kinda hard to forget my own requirements and see what is possible at all (with PMM) ;-D