Rename from file hash

[srkinard]

My apologies for asking a somewhat dumb question, but I failed to solve it from scanning the forums.

Here's what I'm dealing with...I had approximately 11TB of movies and TV shows on a RAID 5 connected to my Mac Pro running Plex Media Server.

I had a bunch of TV shows stored on a drive that was connected as a pass-through disk on my RAID card...when my main RAID 5 had an issue and went into a recovery state, the HBA decided that that pass-through disk would be perfect as a hot-spare and proceeded to begin rebuilding the RAID to it...wiping the data on it out.

I used Data Rescue 4 in Deep Scan mode and it reconstructed about 3.5TB of the 5.5TB on there.

The problem is, the filenames are gone. Since it had no directory information it did a raw file reconstruction. I have a folder now with 7,466 AVI files, named as such:
M00001.avi, M00002.avi and so on to M07604.avi

There were 7,604 AVIs but *some* of them actually had the filename saved in the metadata tag of the file so I used A Better Finder Rename to extract and rename those.

I have thousands of MP4, MPG and MKV files also...very few of each had the metadata embedded so I have no way to know what they were without opening each one and trying to rename by hand.

When I take the files into the FileBot GUI, it asks me to try and ID each file so there's no automatic help there.

I've read that FileBot will try to lookup the movie or episode by hash...but I've had no luck so far.

Is there any possible command line or scripted pieces that could scan all these folders and try to save anything? If it even got 25% of them right that would be a few thousand less for me to try and do by hand.

Just wondering if anyone had suggestions.

Also...is there a way to take the existing files I have and write the titles into the embedded tags in case this ever happened again?

Thanks!

[rednoah]

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You could check through the old releases and find one that still has "OpenSubtitles" movie mode. That should do an OpenSubtitles hash lookup to identify the movie. It won't work unless people have associated the movie information for exactly that file though. You can try... but that feature has been removed because it rarely ever works.

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I might consider writing a new script for that use-case... using OpenSubtitles hash-lookup to identify files. But that's not free even for Donors, and it may not work as well as you might think. Make me an offer.


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FileBot does store NTFS Extended Attributes whenever you rename movie or episode files:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=324

@see viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5#p5394