# Locking movie posters? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [October 9, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/locking-movie-posters/317777 "2018-10-09T02:53:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zer0defex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f6c823/32.png) [@zer0defex](https://forums.plex.tv/u/zer0defex)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/locking-movie-posters/317777/1 "2018-10-09T02:53:53Z")
Is there anyway to lock movie posters you’ve selected like you can lock other text fields so that when you update metadata, the poster doesn’t get changed? If not that, does anyone know how to pull the latest movie scores from IMDB or MovieDB without refreshing all metadata? ---
**Author:** ![anon18523487](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/locking-movie-posters/317777/2 "2018-10-09T05:50:11Z")
Movie posters automatically lock if you choose another poster. The scores are retrieved and then stored on your system. If they do not match, then you will need to refresh the metadata. ---
**Author:** ![NewPlaza](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/newplaza/32/128634_2.png) [@NewPlaza](https://forums.plex.tv/u/NewPlaza)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/locking-movie-posters/317777/3 "2018-10-09T12:04:04Z")
> [@anon18523487](#): > > Movie posters automatically lock if you choose another poster. hence if you want to keep the initial poster you first select another poster then select the first one. Goofy, isn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![anon18523487](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/locking-movie-posters/317777/4 "2018-10-09T18:10:20Z")
Yeah, I know. I asked for a button like the others, but it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![zer0defex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f6c823/32.png) [@zer0defex](https://forums.plex.tv/u/zer0defex)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/locking-movie-posters/317777/5 "2018-10-09T21:36:43Z")
Yeah, that sucks. I only select the posters for the ones that I really hate the default on, which means the majority that I like as they are, are unlocked… but so often when I refresh metadata, it changes the default one that I previously liked. Ugh. All because I just want to pull the latest movie scores from IMDB for all movies in my library. ---
**Author:** ![rbeatse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/rbeatse/32/81857_2.png) [@rbeatse](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rbeatse)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/locking-movie-posters/317777/6 "2018-10-09T23:22:34Z")
Check the agent that @ZeroQI has created that will pull all of the posters, backgrounds, and data, etc. and atore it so that Plex uses it if all of the posters change. It is called Lambda and it works really well! ---
**Author:** ![zer0defex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f6c823/32.png) [@zer0defex](https://forums.plex.tv/u/zer0defex)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/locking-movie-posters/317777/7 "2018-10-11T16:26:43Z")
Thanks! I’m looking into Lambda now. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/locking-movie-posters/317777/8 "2019-01-09T16:26:43Z")
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