I have put unimaginable amounts of time in to organizing beyond the source provided metadata and lately lots of time to create custom collections within my library. I have not found any solid way to keep the metadata I enter 100% locked. I have tried different combinations of selecting sources for m…

Hey there, thanks for the detailed and kind post! In general, when you choose a new poster, or upload it, e.g., that should cause those fields to be “locked”. I’m trying to understand the specific issue you’re running into. [image] Epptastic: Like having to rename files because the server has …

Check out some of @OttoKerner 's posts. He seems to have a good mastery on this subject. I think you’ll find an explanation of why the “Local Media Assets” agent should be moved to the bottom of the order list. And info about changing matches/agents on entries to avoid Plex ‘rematching’ unmatched f…

Posters typically remain permanently set at least as far as I’ve noticed I’ve never had an issue with posters and backgrounds not changing on their own. The file names are not changing on the disk but sometimes they “update” or “refresh” such as when I add more media to the library. In those cases t…

Thank you for the information and from what I’ve just reviewed I have attempted to do everything he described on a few occasions and it just doesn’t stick still. The biggest flaw is the “locking” system. When you manually change the data in the edit info window the field will change to have that ora…

Sounds more like a bug / poorly-implemented feature then a new feature.

[image] Epptastic: n those cases the Title and Sort Title sometimes revert back to the original information that was displayed when I first added the file. OK, that’s good data. [image] Epptastic: Currently when I add a file, after updating the library to add the movie to the Plex media …

I am Having the Same issue. I have hundreds of thousands of media at this point. it happens at random and sometimes its info i have painstakingly researched and added. The lock should lock the data, but right now it seems like its a suggestion and not a rule.

This has been reported more than once over the past 5 years. I’m surprised that Plex seems unaware of it. Here’s one example: [image] Why doesn't LOCK mean LOCK when editing content details? General Discussions I create libraries that I want organized a very specific way…

I have been having the same issue from time to time. It happens mostly for me when I add a better version or duplicate version of the same movie and it gets merged with the existing movie that already had all its meta data fixed. Especially the Collections, Poster, Genres and main Title. Those field…

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