# Titles keep reverting back **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [October 13, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486 "2018-10-13T13:24:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rocks911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/848f3c/32.png) [@rocks911](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rocks911)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486/1 "2018-10-13T13:24:12Z")
I cant get my Titles to stay. When I rename a Title of a movie I rename both the “Title” and Sort Title" headings and Im sure to always lock the Title and Sort Title. When I come back to Plex the next day a great many Titles are back to their original, as if I had never changed it. Is there a better way to do this? ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486/2 "2018-10-13T13:31:11Z")
> [@A Couple of Questions...](https://forums.plex.tv/t/a-couple-of-questions/185078/2): > > @caputo00 said: i want to change how movie titles appear which appears to be easily done using the edit tool… is there anything that will change/undo these edits once done, like updates or server refreshes? You must make sure that your movie is not in an ‘unmatched’ state. (which happens usually when Plex failed to identify the movie properly.) Otherwise Plex will try to find a match upon next library update/refresh which will overwrite your manual edits. If you really want to write in all… ---
**Author:** ![rocks911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/848f3c/32.png) [@rocks911](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rocks911)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486/3 "2018-10-13T13:35:12Z")
Thanks for that. My problem isnt with “unmatched” movies. These are matched, just named wrong or sometimes they have wrong dates. Or my ripper outputs the movie in.a.form.that.adds.dots.between.the.title.words. I go in and manually change them (yesterday I spent all day just to be sure what I thought was happening was actually happening) by the end of the evening I had “fixed” every single title on my PC. This morning I open Plex and hundreds of titles are right back to where they were. Kind of a waste of time. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486/4 "2018-10-13T13:41:53Z")
> [@rocks911](#): > > These are matched, just named wrong What I mean by that: are they technically matched, in the sense of “has Plex found a matching entry for this movie in one of its metadata sources?” You can tell if you take a look into the ellipsis (`...`) menu. If there is a menu item ‘Fix Match’, then the movie is matched. If there is merely ‘Match’, then it is unmatched. Another possibility is this: if your media storage is not inside the Plex server machine, you must **never activate** this checkbox: Settings - Server - Library - ‘Empty trash automatically after every scan’ ---
**Author:** ![rocks911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/848f3c/32.png) [@rocks911](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rocks911)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486/5 "2018-10-13T13:57:44Z")
When I click on the ellipsis menu while perusing Movies I see a variety of menu offerings, about half have "Fix Match…"along with “Unmatch”. About the other half of my library has no reference to “Match” at all and has instead a “Refresh Metadata” offering in the menu. My storage is on the same machine (PC) as the Plex server. Clearly there is some automated process that is doing this but its so random its hard to pin down. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486/6 "2018-10-13T14:06:25Z")
Not ob the main page of Plex web. Always click through to the preplay page of the movie. Only then you’ll see the whole menu. Could you post the [Plex XML info](https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201998867-Investigate-Media-Information-and-Formats "Plex XML info") of one or two affected movies? ---
**Author:** ![rocks911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/848f3c/32.png) [@rocks911](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rocks911)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486/7 "2018-10-13T15:03:44Z")
Really everything seems fine relative to matching. This is about the title. As an example I have a file correctly identified as “Siam Sunset”. Everything is correct on the preplay page. The correct cover art is there, cast info is correct, theres also ratings and a bunch of other info, all correct. When I click on “Get Info” the menu that appears indicates where the movie resides and correctly identifies the movie: "Letter of Drive:\Movies\Recent\Siam Sunset 1999.mp4 " But what it displays as its name on the prelay page is “Siam.Sunset.1999.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC…” I edit that on the preplay page…I click on “Edit” and I change the name to “Siam Sunset (1999)” and it accepted the overwrite and correctly displayed this info. I come back to it the next morning and the title has reverted to “Siam.Sunset.1999.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC…” Everything else is correct and has always been correct, just the title reverts to… I suppose this has to do with the file itself and embeded info somewhere that Im not finding. In the end though Im not sure how important this is. Its just frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486/8 "2018-10-13T15:04:46Z")
These appear indeed to be caused by embedded metadata. You could clear those out, prior to adding the files into Plex. Or you do this: Go to - Settings - Server - Agents - Shows - TheTVDB In there, grab the line ‘Local Media Assets’ with your mouse and drag it downwards, so it ends up being at the bottom of the stack of active agents. Repeat the same under - Settings - Server - Agents - Shows - TheMovieDatabase - Settings - Server - Agents - Movies - Plex Movie - Settings - Server - Agents - Movies - TheMovieDatabase Afterwards, ‘Refresh Metadata’ on the affected movies. ---
**Author:** ![Zatchillac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zatchillac](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Zatchillac)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486/9 "2018-12-04T03:25:30Z")
Was having the same issue and after doing these steps my library is back to normal, though I can’t say exactly which part did it. Only thing I did different was “Refresh All Metadata” on the sidebar so I didn’t have to go through and individually refresh the million movies that were affected. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/titles-keep-reverting-back/319486/10 "2019-03-04T03:35:13Z")
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