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You maybe wondering why thumbnails (pictures) to films don't match up.

This is because your grabbing them from imdb and not renaming them when you save them.

If you notice when you save the images from imdb, there names are 193m or something similar. The numbers are random process and changes quite alot.

If you saved the image and renamed it to the film name; for example:

Scary Movie 4. Go to imdb, right click, save, name: scarymovie4 and save.

The only reason why the images don't match up is because when the moderators confirm the film is worthy of submission, the coding would have changed on imdb. Meaning the code will be for a different image.

The time it takes for the film to be looked at and submitted the code could have changed for the image.

All you need to do is rename the image to something that relates to the film.

Hope you understand that, only said this because theres alot of names that don't match pictures and it looks messy.

Interesting theory. I've noticed though, I can be looking at a movie (on FD), refresh the page, and it's a completely different thumbnail then.

Also, once the image has went from IMDB to Your computer and then to FD, IMDB should play no part in the file, right?

Wrong.
The image then goes back up onto the internet under the same file name as on the imdb site.

I think this is how it goes im not fully sure, but it all sounds logical to me.

Why not try it? Rename the files to the film name.

Actually, the file name on IMDB could be 28m, but when uploaded to the site the link actually looks like 'http://www.flixdump.com/images/thumbs/11028m.jpg'.

The image is hosted on FD. So how can IMDB change it in someway?

I could be talking about a completely different thing than you or I could have misunderstood you in some way.

Try it out thats all you can do. So far your saving them as you get them from imdb. Try changing the names then see what happens.

If you save the file to your computer, imdb can't change it, even if it has the same name. The reason the thumbs are wrong is because people are hotlinking the imdb pictures.

What is being said here,
is imdb has for example 130 moviez,
the file name 123.jpg, might belong to scary movie three,
but when imdb adds another movie to its database, it will add that movie to the files, so scary movie will be jumped from 123.jpg
what you can do, is setup a photobucket account at the site <img hosting site>
and save the picture to your computer, renamed, scary movie 4.jpg,
upload it to your photobucket acount,
and link it to this site
that way it will stay the same and never be taken down

There's no need to put it to photobucket. Just rename the file and browse for it on your pc.

oh okay well awesome