Metadata locking

[crusher11 1102]

How exactly does metadata locking work and what does it do? If I manually edit fields, is that prevented by the lock, or does it just affect a refresh? What are the circumstances in which one would want to refresh things? How do Tags fit into this system, since I'm not aware of them ever being automatically generated?

[Aevaris 8]

Metadata locking is meant to preserve manual changes. It does not prevent someone with security to change the metadata. It only prevents the automated metadata fetch from reverting your manual changes. This applies to any metadata that has the feature that can be changed by metadata fetching.

The reason to refresh things varies, but generally you do not need to refresh unless you've lost metadata or incorrectly changed metadata.

Tags, AFAIK, have no automated data fetcher.

[Luke 42090]

4 hours ago, Aevaris said:

Metadata locking is meant to preserve manual changes. It does not prevent someone with security to change the metadata. It only prevents the automated metadata fetch from reverting your manual changes. This applies to any metadata that has the feature that can be changed by metadata fetching.

The reason to refresh things varies, but generally you do not need to refresh unless you've lost metadata or incorrectly changed metadata.

Tags, AFAIK, have no automated data fetcher.

Hi, exactly, great answer, thanks !

And yes tags are a user defined feature.

[crusher11 1102]

So if I leave tags unlocked and refresh, do all my tags get deleted or does nothing happen?

 

[Luke 42090]

Nothing should happen.

[Carlo 4561]

17 hours ago, crusher11 said:

So if I leave tags unlocked and refresh, do all my tags get deleted or does nothing happen?

 

Keep in mind none of the locks apply if you IDENTIFY a movie/episode as that is basically saying the meta-data info is wrong and DOES need to be reloaded.  UNLOCK protects against refreshes.