Resetting all display names

[OttoKerner]

You can actually select several posters at once. Depending on the size of your library, this could already work for you:

[HowTo] Selecting multiple items for edit, playlist, etc.

Note: These instructions apply when browsing your libraries in Plex Web. They also work within collections. They do not apply to search results. To discuss or vote for feature requests regarding search results, please search the Feature Suggestions forum. When you hover over any Library item, some controls appear: [image] You can put the UI into Selection mode in either of two ways: By clicking on the ‘Select’ control for any item. OR Hold the Ctrl key and click on any item (you don’t h…

If your library is quite large (i.e. over several hundred items), you might want to access the Plex server API instead. Use the method dexcribed in here, but use title.locked=0 instead of thumb.locked=0 in the query string:

Reset all manual poster selections in a library at once or unlock other metadata fields

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…