I checked connectivity with a url that supposedly had previously generated a

java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out

error.


$ curl http://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=The+Big+Bang+Theory
[{"score":29.423094,"show":{"id":66,"url":"http://www.tvmaze.com/shows/66/the-big-bang-theory ...

I tried again, this time using a different data source. This time I used TVMaze instead of TheTVDB. This time my CPU didn't spike at all and filebot didn't hang. Why would one data source cause CPU spike and application freeze and another doesn't? It is like TheTVDB caused some sort or runaway ...

I found the error log in ~/.config/filebot

I ran the application from the console to view any error message generated as filebot was running.

I used a large directory to generate test data, and it generated a lot of errors.


$ filebot
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on
Nov ...

Within ~/.java/.userPrefs/net/filebot/ui/episodelist I have a directory with the name

'_!'\''w!}@"u!'\''c!d@"h!'\''c!~@!u!'\''}!}@"2!'\''8!cg"p!(@!~@"z'

I have a similarly weird directory name in ~/.java/.userPrefs/net/filebot/ui/rename

Is this right? Could this be causing issues?

Does Filebot ...

I am running Filebot on Manjaro Linux, installed from the Arch AUR repository.
Filebot version is 4.7.2.
The Java environment is jre8-openjdk version 8.u112, with java-openjfx version 8.u76.
All other java applications on my system run without issue.

Installation went smoothly, the application ...