Scraping files can change the storage directory

[tom80H]

There’s already an existing feature suggestion asking for an option to store the posters or other media assets alongside the movies / shows in your library (e.g. if you manually upload an image, add the image URL or pick one of the online posters). I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes.

Backup posters and artwork

Most Plex users, I think, choose the poster and artwork that is displayed. Sometimes that means finding correct images and uploading the file or URL. I would like the ability, on a library basis, to have Plex take the file that has been designated and place that in the appropriate folder and anmed so that Plex will find it as the image. I have curated my images for many years and would like to not have to do that again, if I lost my server or had to reinstall. If the files are there in the f…