additional info: /home/qbtuser/Downloads used to be a separate disk, on it's own mountpoint, and I was using -- action duplicate, but i ran into two issues; first, I was downloading everything to one location, then copying it to another, which was doing a lot more file operations than necessary, and ...

My setup is perhaps unduly complicated. I do have it working; I was mostly providing the logs A) because you asked, and B) in case it helps anyone else or it would make sense to more clearly/specifically throw an error when encountering this type of setup. I have 3 10Tb HDDs with BTRFS across all 3 ...

Sorry for the delay, I've been very busy lately, and though I was pretty sure I still had some logs, I did not, until now, have time to verify that. Here is a sample of the log entries when it fails due to permissions issues, which results in it putting everything into Unsorted. If you want the ...

I am an idiot, and am duly chastised. It was a permissions issue. The user that the filebot/AMC was running under did not have permission to create directories in the target location, so it was trying, and failing to create the directory, then because the directory did not exist, it couldn't move ...

Yeah, I was overly optimistic. It made no difference. My Unsorted directory continues to balloon.

That's what I get for trusting anything ChatGPT had to say on the subject...

FileBot 5.1.7 (r10514) JNA Native: 7.0.0 MediaInfo: 25.04 Tools: fpcalc/1.5.1 7z/24.09 unrar/7.11 Extended Attributes: OK Unicode Filesystem: OK GVFS: PlatformGVFS [/run/user/1000/gvfs] Script Bundle: 2025-05-24 (r1007) Groovy: 4.0.21 JRE: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 21.0.7 JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit ...

I've been using Filebot on Arch linux for nearly a decade, and it has pretty much always just worked. Unfortunately, that seems to no longer be the case. I have a script that I use to call fn:amc, as pasted here: #!/bin/sh -xu # If run by qbtuser or systemd service, $HOME may not be yours — better t ...