Kometa Deleting and Recreating Collections

[low quiver]

I had not updated Kometa in a long time, did an update (docker), and now my collections are being deleted and recreated with every run instead of being updated.

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[low quiver]

This is an example of a collection being deleted and recreated every run ^^^

This is an example of a collection being updated only ^^^

[dusty bay]

This is an issue with some of the default collections; issue logged but no fix at present.

[low quiver]

I don't use default collections though?

[strong rock]

Then please provide a log file…

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**Rec 01** - 🚀 **VERSION UPDATE AVAILABLE**

🚀 VERSION UPDATE AVAILABLE
Current Version: 2.2.1 (Docker: master)
Newest Version (at the time of this log): 2.2.2

Latest Kometa Versions (as of 2025-10-11 10:47:56)
Master branch: 2.2.2
Develop branch: 2.2.2
Nightly branch: 2.2.2

In the Kometa discord thread, type !update for instructions on how to update.
For more information on updating, [https://kometa.wiki/en/latest/kometa/logs/#checking-kometa-version]
2 line(s) with New Version errors. Line number(s): 11, 151033

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[strong rock]

@low quiver isn't Kometa doing literally what you tell it to? yaml delete_collections: managed: true configured: true

it's a smart collection, so it doesn't "know" how many are in the collection so the “less” doesn’t matter

[low quiver]

I have this one too and many more that exhibit the same behavior. This is not a smart collection correct?

[dusty bay]

That delete_collections config is telling Kometa to, at the start of every run, delete all collections that were created by Kometa AND are part of the current config.

So you are asking it to delete and then recreate everything in the current config.

[low quiver]

Ok I’ll change that and check. But I thought setting limit: 1 would mean it will delete only if less than 1 item is left in the collection?

[dusty bay]

less: 1 not limit if you're talking about the attribute under delete_collections.

[low quiver]

Yeah that’s what I meant

[dusty bay]

Oh, and if these are smart collections they might not have a size, so that doesn't come into play.

There are a lot of twisty passages in that logic.

[noble gulch]

antwanchild used !aenh

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