Files being skipped when no license

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daemonofchaos
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Files being skipped when no license

Post by daemonofchaos »

I'm running the Docker filebot-node image. The first run fails due to no license but all files to be processed are still added to the .excludes file. So when a license is added and filebot is ran again, the files that should be processed are skipped.

Expected behaviour: License should be checked prior to file processing and program should exit if not found. Any files that would have been considered for processing should not be added to .excludes until they are actually processed (e.g. copied, moved, renamed, etc).
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Re: Files being skipped when no license

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Unfortunately, the amc script builds on top of filebot, so if filebot rename fails for whatever reason, then the exclude list has already been updated, to avoid getting stuck in an infinite loop where files that processed over and over again, always failing for the same reason.

Special support for preliminary license checking could be added to the amc script itself, but that's a bit unclean, and required license checks before running any script seems like a more-harm-than-good solution. Let's see how it goes. If more users report this as an issue, then I'll look into finding a good solution.
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