So what filebot does when you pass in a path as argument, filebot will asking the operating system for the canonical / absolute file path. This means that the operating system will give back the real path and resolve symbolic links, maybe canonicalize character encoding, etc.

No idea what's going ...

I'd noticed that but because I'd never seen filebot work properly I thought maybe it was normal that it used a temp folder to do things.

Now that I've googled it, looks like it's a java hotspot performance data log store. Perhaps it is somehow polluting into the filebot variable space (I don't see ...

[redact]@[redact]:/mnt/media1/tv/Archer$ filebot -rename .
Rename episodes using [TheTVDB]
No media files: [/tmp/hsperfdata_[redact]/6939]
Failure (°_°)


This seems to take a long time (10-15 seconds?) and interestingly (or not?) the behaviour is different from if I run filebot with the full file ...

Hi, I'm a first time user of FileBot here and I'm running into a NoSuchFileException. I'm not sure if I'm committing a rookie error or there is some more deep rooted problem here.

I've tried to demonstrate the files that exist and that I can write to them (the other errors relating to ...