# Stop. Changing. My. Posters

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/stop-changing-my-posters/870858>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [February 29, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/stop-changing-my-posters/870858 "2024-02-29T17:23:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![xSean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/xsean/32/349480_2.png) [@xSean](https://forums.plex.tv/u/xSean)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 5:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/stop-changing-my-posters/870858/130 "2024-05-24T05:59:10Z")

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Going to reference my post here:

> [@Lock Posters](https://forums.plex.tv/t/lock-posters/755134/12):
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> After going through this issue again, found the difference in metadata. \<Field locked="1" name="title"/\> \<Field locked="1" name="titleSort"/\> \<Field locked="1" name="studio"/\> \<Field locked="1" name="art"/\> \<Field locked="1" name="originallyAvailableAt"/\> \<Field locked="1" name="year"/\> So you can have it all look like that within the XML for anything that can be randomly changed upon refresh. What is missing is this: \<Field locked="1" name="thumb"/\> If ‘Thumb’ isn’t locked, then the item c…

If ‘thumb’ isn’t one of the fields locked, then it looks like the item can be changed upon a refresh.

```auto
<Field locked="1" name="thumb"/>

```

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