# Lock Poster **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-windows\ **Created:** [July 4, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576 "2021-07-04T13:28:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThomasCSR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/thomascsr/32/12675_2.png) [@ThomasCSR](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ThomasCSR)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576/1 "2021-07-04T13:28:33Z")
Is it possible to lock posters? Plex tends to prefer English posters. My priority is Danish posters, then original posters and then English posters. ---
**Author:** ![SE56](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/se56/32/222425_2.png) [@SE56](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SE56)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576/2 "2021-07-04T13:35:45Z")
Do you have this setting enabled? ![Screen Shot 2021-07-04 at 11.34.06 pm](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/8/2/82949abde6c89eaa2f612c518278ad5bab5a29ac.jpeg) ![Screen Shot 2021-07-04 at 11.41.58 pm](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/6/8/68ede43b2be7393637c0f3edb8766559d41555ce.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ThomasCSR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/thomascsr/32/12675_2.png) [@ThomasCSR](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ThomasCSR)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576/3 "2021-07-04T14:02:04Z")
Yes I have. But the posters aren’t locked. If foreistant a Japanese movie doesn’t have a Danish poster and I manually chose the original Japanese poster - then if I do a complete meta data update, I often find it replaced by an English poster. ---
**Author:** ![anon5074910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576/4 "2021-07-04T14:05:56Z")
Best and only way in my opinion to fully control the posters is to use local assets. Takes a while to setup but once it’s done plex will then never change them unless you change it yourself. ---
**Author:** ![SE56](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/se56/32/222425_2.png) [@SE56](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SE56)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576/5 "2021-07-04T14:07:10Z")
Well the only other way is to opt for those movie types to there own Library and set to Local metadata. Make sure LMA in agent setting is enabled for media type ![Screen Shot 2021-07-05 at 12.08.18 am](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/3/9/39e6444ae0a437f1dccf57f691052966e16ce24f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ThomasCSR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/thomascsr/32/12675_2.png) [@ThomasCSR](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ThomasCSR)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 5:41am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576/6 "2021-07-05T05:41:56Z")
Thanks. As I thought it’s not possible 😒 Using local Posters - well I don’t know - 5000 movies ---
**Author:** ![CostaHT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/costaht/32/193414_2.png) [@CostaHT](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CostaHT)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576/7 "2021-07-05T06:17:00Z")
In that case you can use [this software](https://www.tinymediamanager.org/). It will download all the posters and you can choose to save them locally. That + what the guys suggested above will solve your problem. Good luck ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576/8 "2021-07-05T10:57:52Z")
> [@ThomasCSR](#): > > then if I do a complete meta data update, I often find it replaced by an English poster. It might have to do with you converting the library from one of the old agents to “Plex Movie”. After doing so, you must “Refresh Metadata” of the whole library. Since this is a completely different agent, it provides a different selection of posters than the old agent as well. Your previous poster selections often won’t survive this conversion. Because they might not even be available with the new agent. Or are ordered differently, or have a different filename/URL associated with them. However: _after_ the Metadata refresh and a manual selection of your preferred poster, this manual selection is considered “locked” – just as other manual metadata edits. ---
**Author:** ![ThomasCSR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/thomascsr/32/12675_2.png) [@ThomasCSR](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ThomasCSR)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576/9 "2021-07-05T11:13:28Z")
What a relief. That is the answer I was hoping for. Thanks. And thanks to everybody for participating. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-poster/726576/10 "2021-10-03T11:14:05Z")
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