TV Series rename move entire Plex library
Posted: 29 Feb 2024, 04:09
I purchased a year license in order to get my Plex server files cleaned up. My files are stored on a NAS and I mount the shared folder as needed on remote systems. The folder structure is quite typical for a Plex system as shown below. I used Filebot to clean up Television shows
Multimedia
|_Plex
..|_ Movies
....|_Movie 1
....|_Movie 2
.
.
|_Television
..|_Series 1
....|_Season 1
....|_Season 2
.
.
..|_Series 2
....|_Season 1
....|_Season 2
.
.
I had great success using Filebot to organize several TV series using automatic lookup results for those already is decent shape and manual list matching for those is worse shape. Unfortunately, this success ended when working with the final series, Mission: Impossible, I had not organized.
I had this series in the /tmp folder and intended to have Filebot rename the files and folder then I would move them to my Plex shared folder. I kept getting errors related to the SNAP not being able to create the folders required for the renaming. I decided to move the files first then use Filebot since this what previously worked.
I had to modify the preset for Plex because the folder format was not desirable. I received an update message for Filebot before I started this and I believe the presets must have changed in conjunction with the update. Once I modified the preset the preview pane looked fine so I ran the rename.
There were no error messages during the rename process but I was unable to locate the files when the process completed. The revert function did not work either since the files were not present in the location shown in the preview panel. I was shocked and thought I lost my entire Plex library (Movies, Television, Music, and Audio books)!
I had to hunt for the files and was fortunate to have found them. The Plex folder and all nested folders with content has been moved into a folder named ".Trash-1001". The Mission Impossible files were all renamed in this location but folder structure was altered such that it broke all my automation and my Plex server until I moved everything back where it belonged. The file structure now looked like:
Multimedia
|_.Trash-1001
..|_Plex
....|_ Movies
......|_Movie 1
......|_Movie 2
.
.
....|_Television
......|_Series 1
........|_Season 1
........|_Season 2
.
.
......|_Series 2
........|_Season 1
........|_Season 2
.
.
The rename operation should have been constrained to the Television/Show folder and I am struggling to understand why the program would have moved the entire folder hierarchy, especially because the only files specific to wok on were the Mission Impossible series files.
Here is information I am hoping will be helpful to determine the root cause:
System Information
https://pastebin.com/8d5psDLe
Logs
https://pastebin.com/vJNrKxN8
File rename dialog
Multimedia
|_Plex
..|_ Movies
....|_Movie 1
....|_Movie 2
.
.
|_Television
..|_Series 1
....|_Season 1
....|_Season 2
.
.
..|_Series 2
....|_Season 1
....|_Season 2
.
.
I had great success using Filebot to organize several TV series using automatic lookup results for those already is decent shape and manual list matching for those is worse shape. Unfortunately, this success ended when working with the final series, Mission: Impossible, I had not organized.
I had this series in the /tmp folder and intended to have Filebot rename the files and folder then I would move them to my Plex shared folder. I kept getting errors related to the SNAP not being able to create the folders required for the renaming. I decided to move the files first then use Filebot since this what previously worked.
I had to modify the preset for Plex because the folder format was not desirable. I received an update message for Filebot before I started this and I believe the presets must have changed in conjunction with the update. Once I modified the preset the preview pane looked fine so I ran the rename.
There were no error messages during the rename process but I was unable to locate the files when the process completed. The revert function did not work either since the files were not present in the location shown in the preview panel. I was shocked and thought I lost my entire Plex library (Movies, Television, Music, and Audio books)!
I had to hunt for the files and was fortunate to have found them. The Plex folder and all nested folders with content has been moved into a folder named ".Trash-1001". The Mission Impossible files were all renamed in this location but folder structure was altered such that it broke all my automation and my Plex server until I moved everything back where it belonged. The file structure now looked like:
Multimedia
|_.Trash-1001
..|_Plex
....|_ Movies
......|_Movie 1
......|_Movie 2
.
.
....|_Television
......|_Series 1
........|_Season 1
........|_Season 2
.
.
......|_Series 2
........|_Season 1
........|_Season 2
.
.
The rename operation should have been constrained to the Television/Show folder and I am struggling to understand why the program would have moved the entire folder hierarchy, especially because the only files specific to wok on were the Mission Impossible series files.
Here is information I am hoping will be helpful to determine the root cause:
System Information
https://pastebin.com/8d5psDLe
Logs
https://pastebin.com/vJNrKxN8
File rename dialog