# "Your changes could not be saved." Again (edit metadata) **URL:** \ **Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\ **Tags:** server-linux\ **Created:** [December 12, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/your-changes-could-not-be-saved-again-edit-metadata/898633 "2024-12-12T02:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nowhere99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8491ac/32.png) [@nowhere99](https://forums.plex.tv/u/nowhere99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/your-changes-could-not-be-saved-again-edit-metadata/898633/1 "2024-12-12T02:38:32Z")
Version 1.41.3.9292 Running in docker, privileged file/folder permissions are fine I’ve seen this reported over and over again since 2016 (at least) and never a solution. Once again, I’m unable to manually edit the metadata settings. When I hit save it just barfs “Your changes could not be saved.” Please don’t suggest that I should be automatically setting the metadata. That doesn’t help with Collections or Labels or changing the posters. Nothing will save. It hasn’t always been this way so I suspect someone pushed some code that broke it. I don’t have much faith that anyone who can fix it will pay any attention here but figured I’d give it a shot. Here’s the last report of this happening as far as I can tell: > [@Unable to manually edit metadata/tags since end of June](https://forums.plex.tv/t/unable-to-manually-edit-metadata-tags-since-end-of-june/851350): > > Server Version#: 1.32.6.7371 Player Version#: 1.76.2.3951-15712eae (also occurs in browser) Hi there! I have been unable to manually edit metadata since roughly end of June. For example, if I click the pencil icon, select “Labels”, and add a label, I receive the error: “Your changes could not be saved.” I’ve tried changing the agents without luck. Oddly, new media gets properly organized and tagged. It’s only when I attempt to change metadata manually. I tried in both my windows client and v… ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/your-changes-could-not-be-saved-again-edit-metadata/898633/2 "2024-12-12T03:25:22Z")
Can you please grab the server’s DEBUG log files (ZIP) and attach it? In most cases, the problem with being unable to save changes is a DNS blip. In other , less common, cases, there is minor damage to the Databases or weird permission problems. ---
**Author:** ![nowhere99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8491ac/32.png) [@nowhere99](https://forums.plex.tv/u/nowhere99)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 5:37am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/your-changes-could-not-be-saved-again-edit-metadata/898633/4 "2024-12-14T05:37:21Z")
It’s been several days now, across several reboots of clients and several restarts of the Plex docker. Also, since Dec 8th, no new TV shows are showing up in the library. I have confirmed they are in the season folder just like normal so I suspect, like you suggested, a database or permission problem (all of the sudden). Also, all recent episodes won’t play with a playback error. Older episodes play. There are a lot of things having problems now. I’m hesitant to leave logs up here. There seems to be a lot of information in them. Any other way of getting them to you? Edit: I searched for one of the shows I’m having trouble with and see this error Dec 13, 2024 21:57:10.748 [23092945849144] ERROR - SQLITE3:0x80000001, 11, statement aborts at 184: [update metadata\_items set updated\_at=null,guid=?,hash=? where id=?] database disk image is malformed Dec 13, 2024 21:57:10.748 [23092945849144] ERROR - Exception inside transaction (inside=1) (/home/runner/actions-runner/\_work/plex-media-server/plex-media-server/Library/MetadataItem.cpp:3923): sqlite3\_statement\_backend::loadOne: database disk image is malformed Dec 13, 2024 21:57:10.748 [23092945849144] ERROR - Exception assimilating media item in Day of the Jackal, The/Season 01: sqlite3\_statement\_backend::loadOne: database disk image is malformed Dec 13, 2024 21:57:11.004 [23092945849144] ERROR - SQLITE3:0x80000001, 11, statement aborts at 11: [SELECT idx, start\_block, leaves\_end\_block, end\_block, root FROM ‘main’.‘fts4\_metadata\_titles\_icu\_segdir’ WHERE level = ? ORDER BY idx ASC] database disk image is malformed ---
**Author:** ![nowhere99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8491ac/32.png) [@nowhere99](https://forums.plex.tv/u/nowhere99)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/your-changes-could-not-be-saved-again-edit-metadata/898633/5 "2024-12-14T06:32:39Z")
OK I think I fixed the problem. I simply stopped the docker, restored a database backup file from just before the date of the last show added to my libraries, set the permissions and owners of the sqlite3 db file and restarted the docker. I tested setting some metadata and did a file scan for library updates and I’m seeing new episodes again. I think all is right with the world again, all thanks to ChuckPa 😉 Thanks for responding. You got me heading down the right path. ---
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/your-changes-could-not-be-saved-again-edit-metadata/898633/6 "2024-12-14T06:49:13Z")
> Dec 13, 2024 21:52:38.305 [23093011348280] ERROR - [Req#a51f6/Transcode] Error creating directory “/dev/sham/plex”: Permission denied If you want to use memory, it’s `/dev/shm`. You will also need to pass through the real `/dev/shm` into the container for this to work. Don’t reference a subdirectory. PMS will create as needed. When you reference it, it must already exist (which it won’t) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/your-changes-could-not-be-saved-again-edit-metadata/898633/7 "2025-03-14T06:49:58Z")
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