# Sync Media Data back to File

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/sync-media-data-back-to-file/43169>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [September 21, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sync-media-data-back-to-file/43169 "2013-09-21T17:53:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sync-media-data-back-to-file/43169/3 "2021-03-10T20:44:46Z")

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Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate

> [@automatic rename files](https://forums.plex.tv/t/automatic-rename-files/27216):
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> Hi there. I just started to manage my library perfectly to plex especially for tv shows. I used filebot to rename all of my files to get the best matching experience, but most of my shows already include the name and some “S01E01” express. Wouldn’t it be nice if there would be an option within Plex after a correct match to click on a button and rename every single data after the tvdb match like filebot and some other renamed did? like to bring a file named “breaking.bad\_S01E01-pilot.AC3.HDRip.…

> [@\[Feature Request\] Metadata Write Back](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-metadata-write-back/119947):
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> I would like to see an optional item in libraries to write metadata changes back to the original media files. For my use case in particular my primary interest would be in ID3 tags for MP3 files and iTunes style tags for MP4 files. I have spent quite a bit of time properly tagging my media files and those tags are what allowed Plex to quickly make sense of my collection. So it bothers me that if I make a quick edit in Plex it is permanently locked into Plex’s internal database and not written b…

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