Make artwork permanent

[TheDreadPirate]

There is a library setting to save images in the media folders. If you add new content with that setting enabled it will automatically save the images it retrieves from TMDB/TVDB/etc in the media folder. If you enable the setting after you've already created the library, any content already in the library won't retroactively have the images you customized written to disk. If you were to rescan and "replace all metadata" and check "replace all images" it would place images in folder it had previous already scanned, but would not use the customized images.

If you already have images saved elsewhere on your computer, you can simply put the images in the appropriate movie/show, name it properly, and Jellyfin will pick it up on the next scan.

Hypothetically, if your Jellyfin server were to implode again, when you re-setup Jellyfin it will just pick up the images that are already there.

Documentation for image naming is linked below.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...ws/#images
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...ies#images