Why is the movie scanner so crappy nowadays? I had to reinstall my server on a new computer and the library had to be recreated and it really sucks on knowing what movies are what, even though they have the exact name of the movie. It use to be so good.
What is the point locking the data in the edit screen for each movie? I spent HOURS this last weekend renaming and matching movies so that they would have the right artwork, and today after rescanning my library, all my work is down the toilet as it didn’t matter that I had locked the fields on 200 movies, all gone and so is the artwork.
I can’t help with your ongoing issues with plex but I can offer you this advise.
Whenever possible have plex match your media automatically.
if you don’t like the given artwork that’s pulled from the internet then save the desire picture with your movie.
also, it’s hard to tell what you really did. You say you reinstalled PMS and created the libraries again. Did you copy the database over? in any event, if your only problems were unmatched movies and bad poster artwork then follow those two steps above to minimize manual edits from within plex.
If these items were unmatched, Plex will try to find a match for them during the next library update. During this, most manual edits are lost
Before you start inputting metadata manually, you must ‘match’ the item. If it is an ‘unmatchable’ item (like e.g. a sports event or a live concert) then you must match it to the ‘Personal Media’ agent.
Only after that you can start putting in your own meta data.
You should collect these potentially ‘unmatchable’ items in a separate library from “regular” movies.
Because then you can apply the Personal Video agent by default. (edit the properties of the library, on the ‘Advanced’ tab is the dropdown selector with the agent)
none of this is readily apparent to the user in the UI
it would be better presented by either;
completely remove the ‘lock’ from the UI on ‘unmatched’ content
completely prevent any metadata from being manually edited on ‘unmatched’ content
further, providing some indication (mouse over, or dialog notice) when user is attempting to edit fields which will be lost due to unmatched media with either a link to the KB and/or brief explanation that content must be ‘matched’ before editing.
Yeah. I didn’t think about the database being stored somewhere, but I think it was on old hard drive that was not used on win 10 install. I let it scan library once, then did manually matching and after that I locked the fields. The locked fields even though saved, did survive a scan of library and reverted back to initial unmatched state.
