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As many of my media are still renaming themselves, and as helpful as Plex is trying to be, it really doesn’t help if items keep on being renamed when they I know they are correct. Is there a way to ‘lock’ a file, so that renaming it is not possible?
Thanks.
What type of Library are you witnessing this issue?
What exactly do you mean by renaming? Plex changing the filename on disk?
Are you just not familiar with the Fix Match function?
Movies and Music, predominantly. TV Shows and Others seem to be mostly unaffected but there is the occasional wrong or incomplete match. Shall I gives me examples? Perhaps it’s the connected with the agent(s) I’m using.
No, to clarify, I edit the file name and details in the ‘Edit’ tab of a particular example, and at some point in the future, Plex ignores all my edits and renames it the way it sees fit.
All the files on my NAS are the same as they always were, e.g. You Only Live Twice (1967) [name on disc] gets renamed to YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. in the related Library entry.
I am yes, but these don’t always match what I want. For instance, the movie The Walk gets renamed to Walk, and El Cid gets renamed to Cid (or even The Impossible, which is the Spanish translation of Cid, and a totally unrelated movie.)
I am indeed, it’s just that some movies insist on renaming themselves, even after I have fixed their match. I wish there was some way to tell Plex that this name is the one I want, leave it alone.
when this icon is orange it should be locked.
Thank you, yes I know about the padlock icon. Nonetheless, certain films either get renamed or mismatched, even after the padlock is on. For instance, I ripped a copy of my BD of ‘Contact’, but it gets mismatched as ‘Arrival’. Some of my James Bond films also get capitalised; not a biggie, but still annoying. My rip of my BD of the 1956 ‘Ben Hur’ is correctly matched, but misnamed as ‘Ben Hur: 50th Anniversary UCE’ which seems too be derived from the file name somehow.
Is it my source, residing on my NAS?
I don’t know about your files but generally things like that happen when there is embedded metadata, non-recommended folder structures, or the online source got updated/changed and the item got changed on a refresh (possibly a refresh that happened due to scheduled tasks.
If something was not matched at all then it might use the file name without extension. which may look right, but then when it is actually matched with something online, it changes.
These are only things I have seen since I have never been able to reproduce metadata that I have set getting randomly changed without explanation.
I can see that I may have the padlock actually turned off rather than on on some of these titles. I will experiment and see how things are over the next few days.
Try MetaX (Windows) or MetaZ (Mac) for metadata on movies. Really cleans things up.
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