Continuing the discussion from Plex Media Server : [image] Plex Media Server Plex Media Server 1.40.1.8111 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. Oh plex, what have you done :frowning: Upgraded to 1.40.1.8111, ran analyse on my movie library and now all my personal cu…

1.40.1.8120 is now available. It backs out the change that caused poster problems. I installed it on my Synology DS918+. I analyzed individual movies and whole movie and TV show libraries. The movie/show posters did not change. It will not restore posters changed by the 8111 release. The only …

I’ll give this a shot later this morning. I don’t use any local posters… I have to do further testing on this. Just turning it off, I would find an occasional record that would fix the poster with a refresh, most would not. Once all other database work is finished I’ll give it a complete refr…

[image] grandpacarp: I don’t use any local posters Hopefully it won’t matter and the changing from on to off with a refresh each time might force plex to update the thumbnails its now using. Will be a good data point regardless.

OMG :fearful: I ran into the problem and almost 90% of my posters have gone, replaced by frames from the movies. Unfortunately, my backup path was wrong (I should have updated it after migrating from Plex DSM6 to Plex DSM7 on my Synology NAS), so I don’t have any backup :sob: I’ve tried @anon50749…

[image] sc00p123: disable/enable local assets Did you 1) disable (saving settings), 2) force refresh the metadata of your movie library, 3) enable (saving settings) and 4) again force refresh the metadata of your movie library ? This worked for me but it unclear if this method will work if y…

Hi @anon5074910 , Yes I did ! [image] When clearing the “use local assets” > Save Changes > Refresh all metadata of the library, I was expecting Plex to set back a default poster, but it is not the case : the frame of the movie remains. Re-enabling “use local assets” and refreshing all metadata d…

If you don’t have a backup to restore, my script here could probably also solve this issue (probably just need to remove the check for Gracenote). [image] New Artwork Provider? Metadata & Adding Files Here is a script to select all the default TMDB posters.

So, with the change of the language of the library and refresh all metadata, some additional default posters were reinitialized, but clearly not the majority of them :cry: I’ve finally recreated my library from scratch (so I’ve lost some sort naming on some movies and some of my manual collections……

Just want to say for anyone else that restoring a backup (as described here ) did work for me. The only thing missing was anything i had added since the backup on 2/20. I went with the 2/20 backup even though i had one on 2/23 since the 2/23 would have been after updating to the server version that c…

I did add and remove a few other items, but not the affected movies specifically, I was choosing posters on other movies in the same library during this time. I created and removed a couple collections. I know that’s probably not very helpful! I could try harder to reproduce it if that would be us…

Server Version 1.40.1.8111 has broken poster/artwork & thumbnails

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If you don’t have a backup to restore, my script here could probably also solve this issue (probably just need to remove the check for Gracenote).

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