I give up! Movie will not add to library!

[FordGuy61]

Caveat for all of this: Libraries should be using the Plex Movie scanner & agent. Unknown what will happen if using the Plex Movie (Legacy) agent.

@XrayDoc88

I like to choose my posters for my movies. Do I understand correctly that if a poster has already been chosen, rescanning the library should not change the poster? But a metadata refresh might change the selected poster?

If you manually choose a poster for a movie, it should not change if you rescan or refresh the metadata for that library.

Some users are saying this is not always true. Plex is investigating, but cannot reproduce the problem. See Stop. Changing. My. Posters .

@XrayDoc88

Is there is any way to transfer your selected posters to a completely new movie library? I assume your only recourse is to manually set the poster for each movie if you don’t like what was defaulted. But this is obviously a pain!

See Move Media Content to a New Location.

Basically, copy the files to the new location and scan to pick them up before removing them from the old location. Read the doc, as there are some additional steps.

This should keep poster selections and any other customizations you’ve made (collections, etc.).

EDIT: I just tested this with my server. It did not keep the same manually selected movie poster. The poster in the new library is the default chosen by Plex.