horstepipe Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 (edited) Hello I'd like to understand what is happening here. Some years ago I tagged my movies with specific nominations, e.g. Cannes - Palme d’or This was on an old Emby server, but the info was being written into the .nfo files. But I do NOT see the locked field for tags into the info. Now on my current Emby server I'm still seeing that info as expected - but as I said it is NOT being locked. But if I refresh the metadata for that movie (or for all movies), the tag stays there - don't get me wrong, in this case this is good. But I expected to readd the tags after refreshing my metadata for all movies. So why does this happen? And generally I'm having some inconsistency here now. If I tag a new item, the tag value gets locked (on gui and in the .nfo). But for the old films these values somehow seem to be locked without my knowledge. Edited July 22 by horstepipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 The auto locking when you edit is a newer thing that was added during 4.6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted July 22 Author Share Posted July 22 28 minutes ago, Luke said: The auto locking when you edit is a newer thing that was added during 4.6. Okay but the tags behave like locked but are not marked as locked…? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 Because they're a little different than other data. They're used defined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted August 17 Author Share Posted August 17 (edited) just seeing a similar issue for movie genres. If I delete the genre locked field and a previously added genre in .nfo manually, the genre is not being deleted. Neither after a library scan. Is this expected for similar reasons? Edited August 17 by horstepipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted August 17 Author Share Posted August 17 Here is an example: I'm having the movie The Accidental Spy - and I'm adding this to the .nfo file: <lockedfields>Genres</lockedfields> <genre>Test</genre> the changes are applied as expected. But if I remove these entries from nfo again, they are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 It will delete except for the case when it gets down to zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted August 17 Author Share Posted August 17 2 minutes ago, Luke said: It will delete except for the case when it gets down to zero. Sorry, what exactly can go to „zero“? If you mean the genres - no - there are still other genres in the .nfo file but the test one is still there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 23 hours ago, Luke said: It will delete except for the case when it gets down to zero. Could you or anybody who understands that sentence elaborate the meaning please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 @horstepipe Pretty sure there was another topic on this as you can manually edit nfo files to add field but cannot completely remove field by manual edit. So changing from say 3 genres to 1 will work but 3 to 0 will not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 6 minutes ago, Happy2Play said: So changing from say 3 genres to 1 will work but 3 to 0 will not. Thanks! okay but this doesn’t work here either. I will open a separate thread about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddahKat Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 On 7/22/2022 at 9:39 AM, Luke said: The auto locking when you edit is a newer thing that was added during 4.6. Hi Luke, I just became aware of the auto-lock feature recently... I use an external scrapper for images and such before the files are copied over to my Emby movies directory. Am I correct in assuming that this (the adding of images beforehand) is what causes the movie to autolock? If so, is there a way to disable that feature or make it optional. A problem arises because all my new media is autolocked which prevents other scheduled addons like TimeScraper from being able to modify the metadata. If its not a feature, count my vote to make it one as I'd love to be able to turn off the autolock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 14 hours ago, BuddahKat said: Hi Luke, I just became aware of the auto-lock feature recently... I use an external scrapper for images and such before the files are copied over to my Emby movies directory. Am I correct in assuming that this (the adding of images beforehand) is what causes the movie to autolock? If so, is there a way to disable that feature or make it optional. A problem arises because all my new media is autolocked which prevents other scheduled addons like TimeScraper from being able to modify the metadata. If its not a feature, count my vote to make it one as I'd love to be able to turn off the autolock. No, it would be from using the metadata editor manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pünktchen Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 15 hours ago, BuddahKat said: ... I use an external scrapper ... Is it Tiny Media Manager? It writes "locked" to your nfo files unless you disable it in the settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddahKat Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 Thanks for the info, very helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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