No season folder created when only one season?

[Gorilliams]

Recently Filebot has stopped creating a Season folder if there's only one season of a show. It renames them as SHOW - E0n.ext. Is this intentional and can it be forced?

The shows are marked as Continuing/Returning on tmdb/tvdb.

This is running version 5.1.5 on Synology, with format set to [ plex.id ].

Thanks, Zach

[rednoah]

Are you using FileBot Node? What does the log say?

Are you using the FileBot Desktop application? What do you see?

Are you processing Anime by any chance? Which Anime? The log / a screenshot will tell us.

[Gorilliams]

Filebot Node, not anime, log is below for a single episode, slightly redacted.

Shows with multiple seasons create the expected Season folder, and include the S## in the name

Console Output: Select all

$ filebot -script 'fn:amc' /volume1/Media/Downloads/_ToRename --output /volume1/Media/Downloads --action copy -non-strict --order Absolute --conflict auto --lang en --def 'music=y' 'unsorted=y' 'clean=y' 'skipExtract=y' 'movieDB=TheMovieDB' 'seriesDB=TheMovieDB::TV' --apply thumbnail refresh --log all --log-file '/var/packages/filebot-node/var/filebot.log'

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Run script [fn:amc] at [Tue Oct 01 09:37:49 COT 2024]

[PSA] Important Discussion of Changes effective as of 28 Apr 2023:
https://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13406

Parameter: music = y
Parameter: unsorted = y
Parameter: clean = y
Parameter: skipExtract = y
Parameter: movieDB = TheMovieDB
Parameter: seriesDB = TheMovieDB::TV
Argument[0]: /volume1/Media/Downloads/_ToRename
Input: /volume1/Media/Downloads/_ToRename/SHOW-NAME.S01E03.1080p.WEB.H264-SuccessfulCrab[TGx]/SHOW-NAME.s01e03.1080p.web.h264-successfulcrab.mkv
Group files by movie or series
Group: {Series=SHOW-NAME (2024)} => [SHOW-NAME.s01e03.1080p.web.h264-successfulcrab.mkv]
Rename episodes using [TheMovieDB] with [Absolute Order]
Lookup via [SHOW-NAME] [show-name]
Fetching episode data for [SHOW-NAME]
* SHOW-NAME [138501] | 9 episodes | 01-09
[COPY] from [/volume1/Media/Downloads/_ToRename/SHOW-NAME.S01E03.1080p.WEB.H264-SuccessfulCrab[TGx]/SHOW-NAME.s01e03.1080p.web.h264-successfulcrab.mkv] to [/volume1/Media/Downloads/TV Shows/SHOW-NAME {tmdb-138501}/SHOW-NAME - E03 - Through Many Miles - Of Tricks and Trials.mkv]
[THUMBNAIL] https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/lgsL0ZxNWCSzdcPthRelaH7KBaJ.jpg (/volume1/Media/Downloads/TV Shows/SHOW-NAME {tmdb-138501}/SHOW-NAME - E03 - Through Many Miles - Of Tricks and Trials.mkv)
[THUMBNAIL] 512x288 (/volume1/Media/Downloads/TV Shows/SHOW-NAME {tmdb-138501}/@eaDir/ASHOW-NAME - E03 - Through Many Miles - Of Tricks and Trials.mkv/SYNOVIDEO_VIDEO_SCREENSHOT.jpg)
[REFRESH] Refresh File Services (/volume1/Media/Downloads/TV Shows/SHOW-NAME {tmdb-138501})
Processed 1 file
Done ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ

[rednoah]

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Shell: Select all

--order Absolute

Console Output: Select all

Rename episodes using [TheMovieDB] with [Absolute Order]
[COPY] from [.../SHOW-NAME.S01E03.mkv] to [.../SHOW-NAME {tmdb-138501}/SHOW-NAME - E03 - Through Many Miles - Of Tricks and Trials.mkv]

If you use Absolute Order then you force FileBot to work with absolute episode numbers only, so no SxE numbers, no season number, thus no season folder with season number.

You'll want to use Airdate Order (default) if you want to organize files with season folders with season number / episode files with SxE number.




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Shell: Select all

--action copy

Are you using btrfs as file system? If not, then --action copy means that you are physically copying files within the same file system. This is extremely and unnecessarily wasteful, not smart. You'll want to use --action duplicate so that filebot may default to duplicating the file system entry (i.e. hardlink) rather than the physical data on disk.

[Gorilliams]

Ok, will switch to Airdate Order, that makes sense. Thanks.

The action copy was temporary while I was figuring out some mismatch issues, to avoid manually renaming them back for the next try.

[rednoah]

The action copy was temporary while I was figuring out some mismatch issues, to avoid manually renaming them back for the next try.

I recommend --action test (i.e. Dry Run in FileBot Node) or --action duplicate when running this kind of test.