Just got to my system. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HELP!

everything worked wonderfully. I also see you changed the post title.I appreciate that you didn't change it to "idiot spends four days on file extension issue"

LMFAO! So all this trouble because when i told handbrake to change the file format to mp4 it produced a file extension of mv for some reason. Lol when i look into the properties of the file there is even a notation saying its an mp4 file. Smh.... Okay, the file size was smallish and i read filebot ...

I reprocessed to another directory. Ok I ran the sanity check. filebot -script "g: println args; println args.getFiles{ it.video }" "/home/fakeuser/new1/" [/home/fakeuser/new1] [] I then ran the xattr script with the same results filebot -script fn:xattr /home/fakeuser/new1/ /home/fakeuser/new1 ...

Thanks for the guidance. For some reason no xattr was being made so I followed the instructions to have it made via "Optimizations for Remote File Systems" and reprocessed the files. So now I see a folder named .xattr in with the media files. This folder contains many folders matching episode names ...

okay, I have renamed a series using filebot, saved to my local drive. I then go into terminal. enter this filebot -script fn:nfo /path/to/media/ of course entering the actual path to media. The result is nothing, other than it printing out done. No nfo file is created for the series, season or ...