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saving file to another directory

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I have a video in E:\PIXAR\Finding Dory 2016 and would like to save it in Y:\DIsney\Pixarm how do i do this in the gui? John
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e.g.

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Y:\DIsney\Pixarm\{n} {y}
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Does the {y} have to be at the end of the line.
I tried it without and i got an error because
of the colon in next of the Y in Y:\disney\Pixar {n} {y}. How to solve this , should it be {Y:\disney\Pixar {n}} ?
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After keying in what the picture below shows
Image

I get this error
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What did I do wrong? John
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AFter putting this into the gui
https://snipboard.io/VWZszH.jpg
I git this error
snipboard.io/5CjZoW.jpg

How do i solve this problem? John
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Windows does not allow : colon in file names. You therefore cannot have a folder named "2021 Y:".


:arrow: You may click the green Validate button to strip : colon from the file path before clicking on the Continue button.


:idea: If you want to move files from drive X: to drive Y: then your custom format is bad. You're somehow accidentally generating invalid file paths. You'll want to remove the part that generates the leading X:\2021 part and make sure to generate valid file paths that start with Y:\.
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That is automatically generated. How do I revise the format so it works?
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What format are you currently using?
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Movie
I took out the year at the front and it moved perfectly however If I put the year in brackets at the will it work?
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We need your format and the output you want e.g.

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Y:\Disney\Pixar\{n} {y}
=
Y:\Disney\Pixar\movie 2020
you can do this if that what you mean ?

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Y:\{y}\Disney\Pixar\{n} {y}
=
Y:\2020\Disney\Pixar\movie 2020
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