How to unrar in same directory and not add a dir layer?

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noze2000
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How to unrar in same directory and not add a dir layer?

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I'm trying to use filebot to unpack my rar'ed movies so that PLEX can read them.

I would like keep the scene name as i want to be able to find subtitles manually, if needed.

Currently, using the SORTY.groovy script unpacks like this:
movie_name/file_name.rar-->
movie_name/file_name/movie_name.mkv

So it adds a layer of directory that I'd like to avoid.

An additional problem exists for those downloads where the movie file has a different name from the directory. (some grups do acronyms for the movie title and adds only group name and resolution etc.)

So, is there a way to ask Filebot to only unpack in the rar file's directory and then delete the rar files?


Maybe the solution is to move the movie entirely, but for me that would require that filebot coud rename to:
original_folder_name/original_filename.mkv
thanks

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Re: How to unrar in same directory and not add a dir layer?

Post by rednoah »

Does it matter? After extract, the move/rename phase will immediately sort files into a new structure.

The archive filename may contain key identifying information, so filebot will preserve that as part of the file path so that movie/episode auto-detection can work well.
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