I figured a way to fix, with Automator to move all the "files" to 1 new folder.
Then I used NameChanger to append/prepend etc as was needed.
But filebot did it's job, I just over did it.
Thanks very rednoah.

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I understand the basic concept of the absolute path, but I'm not sure how to enter it in "Edit Format" to reduce the number of folder layers.

I'm making a mess. I'm at 20 folder levels now.

I just tried Rename from Filebot "edit ...

I'm using the Mac GUI version.

I have not been able to make either method go.
History comes up empty.

Would you please explain what would be the syntax for:

(f) show/ (f) show s1e3/ show s1e3 where (f) is a folder

Everytime I try, I seem to add another layer of folder instead of deleting the ...

I've accidentally added a couple layers of extra folders on the way to one show.

I have:

(f) show/ (f) show s1e3/ (f) show/ (f) show/ show s1e3

will FileBot 4.2 to undo my error so iTunes and Plex can see them properly again?