FileBot does not find movies in Strict Mode

Biff · Post by **Biff** » 09 Oct 2016, 08:34

Yesterday I clicked "TheMovieDB" to rename a movie being in a folder with about 10.000 files or so. I closed FileBot after a long time while the circle with points was going around, but it didn't show the new name. After that (I assume) FileBot does not find movies in the data bases anymore, but it still finds series. Is there anything I could do to make it work again?

Post by **rednoah** » 09 Oct 2016, 08:40

1. Create a single new file: Avatar.2009.mkv
2. Test with that
3. See what happens

Biff · Post by **Biff** » 09 Oct 2016, 08:55

Thank you, rednoah.

Strange, with Avatar.2009.mkv it works, but with none of them, neither with its original nor the German titles:

The good wife.avi
Good Neighbor Sam.mkv
Leih mir deinen Mann.avi
The Bells of St. Mary’s.mkv
Die Glocken von St. Marien.avi

And after FileBot has no success finding the movie in a data base, pressing SHIFT+right mouse click often does not open the field to manually enter a title, I have to restart FileBot then.

Post by **rednoah** » 09 Oct 2016, 09:07

1.
If you want to process German movies correctly, then using German language preferences will make it work much better (especially when the German title is different from the English one).

2.
SHIFT-LEFT-CLICK works perfectly fine. It'll first run auto-detection (which may take a while) and then ask you to confirm (or change) the movie query. Be patient.

3.
The movie names you posted work fine out-of-the-box as far as I can tell. I'm using English language preferences. If you claim that something doesn't work, please include screenshots or logs that show that. This would save us both lots of time.

Biff · Post by **Biff** » 09 Oct 2016, 09:37

1.
Yes, it is selected:

2.
But there is any circle shown then, so I would assume it does not work / search for a movie title.

3.

The movie names you posted work fine out-of-the-box as far as I can tell. I'm using English language preferences.

Strange, they do not work at all, even when "English" is activated.

Here a part of the log:
Edit: message too long...cannot post
http://pastebin.com/gkznYpEF

Post by **rednoah** » 09 Oct 2016, 10:13

1.
Strict Mode doesn't allow you to process badly named movie files (e.g. movie files without the year). In Strict Mode, badly named files are ignored and not matched to any movie data.

GOOD:

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Avatar (2009)

BAD:

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Avatar

Opportunistic Mode is default for a reason. Don't use Strict Mode unless you're aware of the limitations that come with that.

2.
Not sure what happens if you force a manual query in strict mode. The behaviour will probably be quite different from opportunistic mode because the results from your manual query would still be subject to strict checks (and possibly be ignored).

Also, Strict Mode is designed to be as non-interactive as possible, so it's likely to just ignore files if there's any ambiguities.

Biff · Post by **Biff** » 09 Oct 2016, 10:28

Opportunistic Mode is default for a reason. Don't use Strict Mode unless you're aware of the limitations that come with strict matching.

Ah, yes, sorry, I should not have changed that option, well, this is what happens when people with no knowledge of anything are acting.

2. Yes, so that might be the answer.

With the Opportunistic Mode it works again. I must have changed that option months ago, but only now it shows its effect.

Many thanks