Been a while since I could get back to this. Thanks again for all your help. Re: the below
1. i will use hazel to get rid of small leftover folders/files
2. --action test is hugely helpful.
3. MyEpisodes unimportant, just more complications!

so i'm almost there: I've found that for the types of ...

Yes, it's the law. Not enforced though. :D

I think I will self-enforce anyway. The more I realize how insanely genius your software is.

OK so I'm almost there, if I can prevail upon your help, I will gladly donate more. Here's what I'm running (this is my existing libraries)

filebot -script fn ...

do i have to give you $5 ever time I'm wrong?

I swore I was not going to be another A**hole who didn't read the manual/faq, search other posts etc. before posting. I have studied that page multiple times, and still I missed the --input flag.

I apologize, and thanks for all your hard work. Donation just made.

Running from cmdline is ...

Sorry to piggy back on this. I might have the same issue: if I wan to run AMC on existing folders of media, I would specify the input path /Volumes/Media/Movies in place of all three ut parameters? in quotes? "/Volumes/Media/Movies" ?

And if I wanted it to rename right then and there, i would just ...