How to prevent duplicate year in TV Shows

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nerbonne
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How to prevent duplicate year in TV Shows

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Hi all, I was able to get the Episode naming scheme setup so that it works pretty well, but one issue that I'm running into is when the TV show already contains the year in the name of the show, my naming scheme will add the year again. How can I suppress the additional year?

Z:/Video/TV Shows/{n} ({y})/Season {s.pad(2)}/{n} {s00e00} - {t}


Normal shows will produce:

Z:/Video/TV Shows/Firefly (2002)/Season 01/Firefly S01E01 - Serenity


But a show with the year in it will produce:

Z:/Video/TV Shows/MacGyver (2016) (2016)/Season 02/MacGyver (2016) S02E10 - War Room + Ship
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You can use the {ny} binding which will take care of corner cases such as this.
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Re: How to prevent duplicate year in TV Shows

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Wow, amazing support. Thanks. Just sent you €10.00.

One more question, any to make FileBot ignore certain file types. IE, .nfo Sometimes it renames them and I don't want that.
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Re: How to prevent duplicate year in TV Shows

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You can use DELETE to remove them from the list before hitting Rename. You can also use Presets to auto-select certain sets of files (e.g. only video files).

Here's a few different methods that allow you to select certain sets of files:
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