# Plex changes Metadata without a reason **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [August 21, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-changes-metadata-without-a-reason/203217 "2017-08-21T01:21:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![snickers\_1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/snickers_1/32/91590_2.png) [@snickers\_1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/snickers_1)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-changes-metadata-without-a-reason/203217/21 "2017-09-13T18:08:33Z")
T\> @NewPlaza said: > > @snickers said: > > SOME-DRIVE/Movies/Total Recall (2012)/Total Recall (2012).mkv > > changed to > > ANOTHER-DRIVE/Movies/Total Recall (2012)/Total Recall (2012).mkv > > Wait a minute… Doesn’t this fall under “replacing” or moving to a new drive. > [https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201154537-Move-Media-Content-to-a-New-Location](https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201154537-Move-Media-Content-to-a-New-Location) > > Basically, you will have to first copy the movies to the new drive, add path to Plex, let plex update with the additional path included, then you can remove the old path from your computer and from plex. This is EXACTLY what i did 😉 All Movies are there … old paths etc … and as soon as Plex starts to crawl Metadata, this stupid, clueless, absolute idiotic, Program fu#ks my Data and overrides anything. Like i said, the Option to change anything manually needs to be removed, because the idiots programming it can’t ensure it is locked … i have wasted countless Hours for this fu#ked up ■■■■ ---
**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:** [September 13, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-changes-metadata-without-a-reason/203217/22 "2017-09-13T19:02:14Z")
> @“MovieFan.Plex” said: > If it is matched to an agent it will show something like “com.plexapp.agents.imdb://tt123456?lang=en”. If it’s unmatched it will say “local://xxxx”. Could it also say something like “`com.plexapp.agents.none://BlahBlahBlah?lang=xn`” ---
**Author:** ![anon18523487](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-changes-metadata-without-a-reason/203217/23 "2017-09-14T02:15:01Z")
Post the XML before and after the change. I’m sure over if the scenarios I mentioned earlier us occurring. And watch the language. Keep this friendly or this discussion will stop like a ton of bricks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-changes-metadata-without-a-reason/203217/24 "2020-01-07T23:41:47Z")
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