I have found that instead of clicking in the right panel and pressing F2 if I select the AutoDetect the names are properly named. At some point I may add the {id} as you suggested to try to determine why some words were being dropped.
thx

I have noticed that Filebot will occasionally drop certain words from the title during rename.
Ex. 'Zero.Dark.Thirty.2012' becomes 'Dark Thirty 2012' and 'Wind.River.2017' becomes 'River 2017'
The format I am using is '{n} ({y})'

Can Filebot rename the movie folders as well as the movie filename? Both the movie folder and movie names before processing are like this:
name.2001.720P.BRRIP.XVID.AC3-XXXXXX
After processing with Filebot the movie name is "name 2001.ext" but the folder name is left untouched. Ideally i would wnat ...

Thanks - I ended up doing it in two passes. First moved the year to the end and the second pass just threw out everything up to and including the ' - ' I bought a couple of books about regular expression so I can learn how to do this without bothering you!

I sort of got it to work by using this expression: {fn.after('Laugh-O-Grams - ')} ({fn.before('-')})
However doing it this way requires my editing the 'Laugh...' text for every different form of fixed text in my file list (ie 'Alice Comedies' etc...
Is there a way to remove ANY fixed text from the ...

Sorry to bother you but I can't get this to work. Here are my steps:
1) Select my file: '1922-Laugh-O-Grams - Little Red Riding Hood' and drag it to the Original Files area
2) Click on 'New Names' area to give focus then right-click and select 'Edit Format'
3) In the Expression area - enter '{n} ({y ...

Thank you for the quick reply. I have a couple of questions.
When moving the year to the end and removing the unwanted fixed text - is this a multi-step process? Move 'year' and then remove 'text'?
Is there a place were the various functions are explained (like, fn.split)?

I am running FileBot under Windows 10 Home and am trying to rename movie files. The original filenames have a pattern of 'yyyy - name.ext' I want to rename them to this: 'name (yyyy).ext and have set a preset of '{n} ({year})' The problem is that in order to rename you have to do a Fetch first but ...