FileBot

Hi
Long time user of filebot for tv and movie renaming, thanks for the great piece of software.

I'm just trying to set this up to process music files, where all I want done is a simple move to a different directory "music" but to maintain the exact filename and structure of the original download.

I currently have the filebot formatting on this as /music/{f}
which basically does what i want, but seems to add in an extra file extension on the move.


e.g
original file
/download/The.Beatles.Abbey.Road.1969/01.Come.Together.flac

becomes
/music/The.Beatles.Abbey.Road.1969/01.Come.Together.flac.flac

Is this a known bug, or should I be using another format expression rather than {f}


Thanks

{f} is the complete file path. Your format is expected to generate a file path without extension.


You can click Settings ➔ Extension ➔ Override to configure FileBot to use the generated path (which may or may not generate an extension depending on your format) verbatim as is.


You can try {folder}/{fn} as format. {folder} is the folder path. {fn} is the filename without extension.

Thanks - /{folder}/{fn} gives the output what I was looking for.

Ive had this going now for the last few months and it has been working well

/{folder}/{fn} copies across the music with the same folder and filename, which is what i want it to do.

However, i noticed that this ONLY copies music files, and ignores anything else such as artwork or text files etc that might be in the folder as well.
Is there something I can add to this string in order to make sure it copies everything across.

Thank you

The Import Companion Files post processing option might work for you.

Thank you. worked exactly how I wanted.