So, the next 10 movies to go through matched at a rate of about 3:1 instead of missing at a rate of 3:1 by using your suggested xattr rename FIRST and then using my existing rename after it. Much better. I'll keep tinkering to see if I can raise the percentages even more.

Thanks for the tips.

1. The movie name is often not as unique as you might think, and the name you have may not always exactly match the name in the database as well you might think. I understand... I've found a number of movies that have the same titles, so this isn't terribly surprising. My question wasn't about name...

What, exactly, does that command do? What is the xattr database and why does one use it? Why do I need the year if the title is an exact match? Here are some more mistakes: I_AM_LEGEND_20170528_091420/title00.mkv -> King Arthur - Legend of the Sword (2017).mkv THE_MUMMY_TOMB_OF_THE_DRAGON_20170528_0...

I'm trying to automate the process as much as I can, so everything is headless. No GUI, all command-line driven and called from cron.

Honestly, being ignored is better since incorrect naming means that I not only have to figure out what the name USED to be, but then I have to rename everything and then "Fix" the matches in Plex. It's more time-consuming to correct mistakes than to do the work manually in the first place....

Using filebot under Linux and it works very well when it's able to correctly match. I'm finding about half of the movies are matching incorrectly, even when the folder name from the rip contains a "perfect match" for the name. For example, "Disturbia (2007)" ripped to folder DIST...