Was using the GUI. Looks like it was a version issue. 4.9.2 didn't work, but updating to 4.9.6 fixed it. Thanks!

I keep running into this case (typically for TV shows) where the subtitles in the download are all stored in a separate SUBS folder, organized thusly: \Firefly\Firefly.1x01.Serenity.Pilot.avi \Firefly\Firefly.1x02.The Train.Job.avi \Firefly\Subs\Firefly.1x01.Serenity.Pilot\2_English.srt \Firefly ...

Ah, thanks for the docs. Time to learn another scripting language, I guess.

:!: The linked thread assumes that each file name has an exact corresponding match in the episode titles. This is not necessarily the case in your case. Ah, I figured it out. "Exact quote" in this case means case-sensitive as well. I had taken the =~ in the original script to mean that it would ...

If the file name matches no episode title: Problem is, it still says the same thing even if I pare the filename down to just one episode, which it then proceeds to match correctly anyway. "paw patrol - all star pups!" => "[Expression yields empty value] Paw Patrol - 3x30 - All Star Pups!"

the problem is the 'a' in "Pups Save Sports Day" is wrong: so remove the 'a' Yeah, I actually tried that one already. It failed for me both ways when stacked, and worked both ways when run by itself. And in any event, I have 15 others with the same problem. Don't think they're all typos.

I was trying to use the stacked episode hack detailed here: https://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5240 And it worked great on most of the files I was dealing with. But a few others I kept getting this "Expression yields empty value" error. I'm using 4.8.5. filebot -rename -non-strict "paw ...