# Reset poster
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/reset-poster/830533
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [February 12, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/reset-poster/830533 "2023-02-12T19:43:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@alebupal](https://forums.plex.tv/u/alebupal)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/reset-poster/830533/1 "2023-02-12T19:43:30Z")
Hello,
I have a movie library where a while ago I changed the poster of some movies from plex. [Screenshot by Lightshot](https://prnt.sc/SLGOuwuokwGr)
Now I have changed the library so that it chooses the posters from the local files.
But movies that previously had a poster chosen don’t change.
Is there a way for these movies to have no poster selected?
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/reset-poster/830533/2 "2023-02-13T11:13:57Z")
> [@Reset all manual poster selections in a library at once or unlock other metadata fields](https://forums.plex.tv/t/reset-all-manual-poster-selections-in-a-library-at-once-or-unlock-other-metadata-fields/764732/1):
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> The following could be most useful for very old libraries, which had their metadata agent already changed several times. For instance if the server admin has manually selected different posters on many items, but now wants to make a clean break and leave all poster selections to the agent. While one could do that by deleting the library and re-creating it, it might however be a bit drastic a measure. What it does: reset the locked attribute of all poster selections in a given library. Upon t…
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### Author:  [@alebupal](https://forums.plex.tv/u/alebupal)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/reset-poster/830533/3 "2023-02-13T19:47:01Z")
thank you very much, it works!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/reset-poster/830533/4 "2023-05-14T19:47:55Z")
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