# Automatically save artwork to local file system **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [August 17, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/automatically-save-artwork-to-local-file-system/804837 "2022-08-17T16:19:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/automatically-save-artwork-to-local-file-system/804837/2 "2022-08-17T20:29:32Z")
There’s an existing feature suggestion discussing an option to backup/store selected posters / backdrops etc. alongside your media. I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes. > [@Backup posters and artwork](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-posters-and-artwork/281432): > > Most Plex users, I think, choose the poster and artwork that is displayed. Sometimes that means finding correct images and uploading the file or URL. I would like the ability, on a library basis, to have Plex take the file that has been designated and place that in the appropriate folder and anmed so that Plex will find it as the image. I have curated my images for many years and would like to not have to do that again, if I lost my server or had to reinstall. If the files are there in the f… # Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread as a duplicate. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/automatically-save-artwork-to-local-file-system/804837)._