Subfolder Parsing?

[roysubs]

I can parse my folder structure completely for renames now, but wow, it's tough to do it !!!

It is impossible to bulk rename shows with similar names as shown:

a) The UI opens a "Select" dialogue, so for example, this says
"Show matching 'ken burns the'"
Under there were listed the following and I had to pick *ONE* and one only.
Ken Burns' The West
Ken Burns: The Civil War
The War (Ken Burns)."

So, I have all 3 of these shows, each in it's own folder, and each folder is named identically to the correct TheTVDB naming convention !!!, i.e.
"D:\TV\Ken Burns' The West" contains programmes in that series
"D:\TV\Ken Burns; The Civil War" contains programmes in that series
"D:\TV\The War (Ken Burns)" contains programmes in that series

But I have to pick one match and that's it. The UI jumps from shows starting with Z back to shows starting with B etc, so I have no way to know which folder it's looking at.
Suggestion: The GUI should at least let the user know what folder it is looking at it in the Select dialogue box. It seems that FileBot puts absolutely no emphasis on the folder structure that's sitting there, or at least give the user an example filename that it's wanting a clarification of the showname of !!!

b) A huge problem with the way that the GUI parses this data is that it does not parse everything and then present the user with results. Firstly it parses until it requires a match, then it waits for the user to provide input, then it continues to parse. So for my 298 folders (all correctly named according to TheTVDB), it took well over 60 minutes with all the stopping and starting at every place requiring input (and completely confusion, for the reason mentioned above).

Could you parse each folder 1 at a time please and if there is a Select dialogue query, please tell the user which folder is being referred to !? With the current scheme it's impossible to know what's going on.

Instead of parse, pause, parse, pause, why not simply parse everything, then store all questions and user input until the end of the run? Then I can go away and let it work for an hour, then spend 5 minutes going through the input requests, then kick off the renaming. Happy to click through all the selections at the end, but with the parse, pause, parse, pause it's really awkward and difficult to know what's going on (and if I let it rename, it's going to create a complete mess, not just of the Ken Burns shows, but tons of others where all the Select boxes were popping up for!). Thanks

[rednoah]

a) No idea, works for me, doesn't even ask anything...

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Maybe using the latest development revision will make this better.

It seems that FileBot puts absolutely no emphasis on the folder.

You're correct. FileBot does in fact put no emphasis on any folder or any single file. Also files aren't processed one by one. It's sort of an optimization process that throws everything together and then after a few filter iterations likely results remain.

The information you want to help you pick the correct entry is at no point available during processing.

Also it may ask for the same series multiple times, as it only knows it's same series as per your answer, not before. Others it will never ask and auto-select the most likely result.

b) The CLI is made for unattended operations. The GUI is not.

Use this:
http://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic ... &t=5#p2211