When editing lockable fields, it’s not clear which state the field is in (locked or unlocked). This could be made more intuitive if the glyph toggled between a locked and unlocked state (instead of yellow and black) and fields in locked state were greyed out and un-editable. As it is now, fields c…

The orange ‘lock’ icon does not indicate that the field is not ‘editable’. Rather it indicates, that your manual edits are not overwritten during ‘refreshes’ from Plex’s online metadata servers.

@OttoKerner said: The orange ‘lock’ icon does not indicate that the field is not ‘editable’. Rather it indicates, that your manual edits are not overwritten during ‘refreshes’ from Plex’s online metadata servers. Agreed, but it’s not a bad idea to change it to what the OP suggests. If the fiel…

Would also be nice if the indicator was a locked lock vs an unlocked lock… That would make things a little more clear… as what is locked vs unlocked…

Make field locking states more intuitive

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Make field locking states more intuitive

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