# Plex chooses screenshot rather than poster

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-chooses-screenshot-rather-than-poster/761797>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-docker, openmediavault\
**Created:** [December 2, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-chooses-screenshot-rather-than-poster/761797 "2021-12-02T18:58:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![robertsg2005](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@robertsg2005](https://forums.plex.tv/u/robertsg2005)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-chooses-screenshot-rather-than-poster/761797/1 "2021-12-02T18:58:59Z")

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Server Version#: Version 1.25.0.5282  
Player Version#:

My plex server sets a screenshot as the poster in around half my library. The posters are there, but going through thousands of entries and manually selecting the poster is not fun.  
Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![frederick.grayson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/frederick.grayson/32/14914_2.png) [@frederick.grayson](https://forums.plex.tv/u/frederick.grayson)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-chooses-screenshot-rather-than-poster/761797/2 "2021-12-02T19:12:00Z")

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If you Refresh Metadata for an item does it now set the poster properly? If so, try refreshing the metadata for that entire library.

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**Author:** ![robertsg2005](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@robertsg2005](https://forums.plex.tv/u/robertsg2005)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-chooses-screenshot-rather-than-poster/761797/3 "2021-12-02T20:31:38Z")

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No rescan and refresh didn’t fix it.  
I discovered that it was picking up some jpgs in the movie directories. If there was a jpg with the same name as the movie file it was detected as a poster. I suspect it was from a old metadata scan from a media center manager.  
I ended up deleting all image files from my movie directories, recreated and rescanned my movie directories and all is now good.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-chooses-screenshot-rather-than-poster/761797/4 "2022-03-02T20:32:26Z")

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