Problem with Movie Actors after update to version 1.25.4

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@Panthercules

And the thought of having to go through and somehow manually obtain and store some 4,500 movie posters locally is pretty daunting (although it might be worth it given that I’ve had to deal with this poster fix process twice now in the last couple of weeks).

I understand and its certainly a decent amount of up front work but well worth it in the end. I decided to switch to local assets approx 1+ year ago and I’d never look back. I’d approx 2,000 movies and 300 shows at the time so fully appreciate the work involved. However, I never now have a poster change unless I change it and they are exactly how I have set them up.

@Panthercules

There were plenty of statements in those old locked threads to the effect that Plex would not replace posters that you had specifically selected, but that’s clearly not true as it has replaced many of the posters I had previously manually selected.

Agreed. Locked posters work until they don’t. I’ve no firm evidence of it but I suspect the deleting from source example is one use case it fails. So, if say TMDB has duplicate posters for a movie and you selected one of them which was then deleted later from TMDB I think plex will not keep the poster. That was my conclusion over a year ago anyhow but things might be better now

@Panthercules

Can you point me to something that explains exactly how to create, store and use local copies of posters? Also, is there an easy way to download a poster from among those offered up by Plex in order to turn it into a local asset?

This document should help you → https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies. But its pretty simple, just add a poster.jpg or fanart.jpg to the folder which contains your movie. Here is an example for 1 movie …

xxx@dokuro:/data/32TB-Media-Server/Movies/Avatar (2009) {tmdb-19995}$ find . -type f -print
./Avatar (2009).eng.forced.srt
./Avatar (2009).mp4
./poster.jpg
./fanart.jpg
xxx@dokuro:/data/32TB-Media-Server/Movies/Avatar (2009) {tmdb-19995}$

Then in your libraries advanced settings just ensure you have Use local assets enabled.

Then force refresh the movie when you add the files and your good to go. For poster sources I typically use https://theposterdb.com and https://www.themoviedb.org.

EDIT: One last thing. This document might also be of help Reset all manual poster selections in a library at once or unlock other metadata fields. Its basically a way to reset all the manual poster selections in your library. This will UNLOCK anything that is locked related to artwork (and other stuff if you want). I found it very helpful myself recently and might be of use to you.