Manually Set Genre Images Deleted When Adding New Movies

[Guest]

Hello,

I've noticed that every time I add a new movie with a specific genre, the manually set image for that genre gets deleted and disappears from the Movies library. This happens consistently on my setup, regardless of scans.

Emby Version: 4.9.1.90
Setup: Docker on Synology NAS

Is this a known bug? Has this been reported before? Is there a fix or workaround to prevent manually set genre images from being overwritten?

Best Regards

[Luke 43533]

HI, this has been resolved for the next release of the server. Thanks.

[Happy2Play 9840]

Wonder what the variable is here as I have custom Genre images that haven't changed in years and am always adding new stuff?

[Guest]

Yes. That would be really interesting to know

[Luke 43533]

12 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

Wonder what the variable is here as I have custom Genre images that haven't changed in years and am always adding new stuff?

When you delete a movie or other kind of media that has that genre, that's when this is happening.

[Happy2Play 9840]

12 hours ago, Luke said:

On 12/28/2025 at 7:39 AM, Happy2Play said:

Wonder what the variable is here as I have custom Genre images that haven't changed in years and am always adding new stuff?

When you delete a movie or other kind of media that has that genre, that's when this is happening.

Interesting as testing on my stable/beta custom images remained.  Randomly choose test media and deleted and did full scan.  Only currently tested on Movies.

[BenHamoMS 2]

I can conform the issue on server Win 10 , Version 4.9.1.90, I don't see any pattern for cause and effect , in some I have new movies etc.. and the image is there and on other it missing . 
I think that it is related to TV shows I'm trying to get a reproduce steps for DEV team. 

but I do remember seeing a fix something on about folders that I can't find - if you know what I'm talking a bout please post a link .  

[BenHamoMS 2]

a day later a Genre with only 2 movie with no change the custom image disappeared after 1 day .
server Win 10 , Version 4.9.1.90
Genre Cleaner 1.0.28.0
I'm 99.9% sure that i did set the image yesterday on the 6-Jan, and now its gone . 

embyserver-63903254400.txtis not a big issue but it is a annoying - if you have a workaround it will be great

 

[Luke 43533]

On 12/27/2025 at 10:53 PM, Luke said:

HI, this has been resolved for the next release of the server. Thanks.