How to unlock locked metadata fields en masse

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Hi,

I recently upgraded my movie library to the new scanner. Since I edited a lot of metadata manually in the past, especially the tags and most prominently, the collection field, those fields are now locked and when I do a “refresh all metadata”, I can not take advantage of the new scanner abilities (like automatically putting movies into collections).

Is there a way I can unlock these fields without having to go through each and every movie manually? Like select all of them at once and unlock the collection field?

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This guide shows how to select multiple items:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/howto-selecting-multiple-items-for-edit-playlist-etc/149910/2

Once selected, the Edit button is at the top of the page:

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excellent, thank you @beckfield - I should have found this myself :slight_smile:

4

only… I can select all the movies now, but there is no option to edit them all at once. so back to square one.

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There is another way as well:
curl -X PUT "me.local:32400/library/sections/NN/all?type=1&collection.locked=0&X-Plex-Token=XXXXX"

me.local replace by the local IP or the FQDN of your server
NN replace by the number of the library
XXXXX replace with your Plex Token

More like that: New Music Metadata handling

6

Of course there is. You should see the Pencil icon at the top of the screen.

7

Brilliant. Does “collection.locked” lock them all and I would need to use “collection.unlocked” to unlock?

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collection.locked=0 = unlocked

collection.locked=1 = locked

9

No, as soon as I select multiple items, the pencil icon disappears.

10

You must make sure to not select collections as well.
Sorting the library by something different than title will remove collections from view.

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Yep, that did the trick. Thank you! :slight_smile:

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One thing that may not be obvious in the UI when editing multiple items simultaneously.

You may need to LOCK and Save Changes first, then edit a second time, and UNLOCK and Save Changes again.