TV episodes with seasons and custom path issue

[begunfx]

Okay. So I have the following command/custom preset:

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{drive}/Television/{n}/{sn}/{plex.name}

I'm using thtvdb as the data source. What I noticed is that when it prompts to confirm the matching show there are a few episodes that it couldn't match (which it actually does when I go to the main screen to do the rename) but there it properly lists the season subfolder. However, when I return to the main screen to do the rename the path does not include Season.

Here's a screenshot of the match prompt (notice the path at the top includes seasons:

Here's a screenshot of the main screen after matching the show. Notice the season subfolder is missing in the rename side of the UI:

[rednoah]

Double-Click <New Names item> ➔ Edit Format ➔ What does the error message say?


{sn} is the season title. It is not guaranteed to be "Season 1". It can be something like "Miniseries" or "Wano Country Arc". It can be completely undefined. It can be undefined depending on your chosen preferred language.


When FileBot asks you to select the series it will show you the file paths of the files at hand. The file path can be anything and is completely unrelated to the target file path that is displayed in the New Names section which is based on the match object and your custom format.

[begunfx]

Okay, to capture the season, would you say this would be the best way?

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{drive}/Television/{n}/Season {s}/{plex.name}

Thanks for the explanation on what is listed above the file match suggestion. Makes sense.

On the error matching part. What I'm seeing is that filebot finds a few episodes that it has an error with as I identified in the screenshot, when prompted to select what is the right TV show to match. Once I select it and I'm taking back to the main rename screen, I don't have any errors on the new filenames on the right side after the TV show is selected. I tried double-clicking one of the episodes that had an error in the TV show selection screen, but no errors are reported.

Here's a screenshot of the match prompt See the errors listed at the top


Here's a screenshot of the main screen AFTER matching the show. Notice that on the right side no episodes are reporting errors


Thanks!

[rednoah]

The built-in examples would recommend something like this:

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{ drive }/Television/{ n }/{ 'Season ' + s }/{ n } - { s00e00 } - { t }

I'd just use {plex} though because that's what you seem to be trying to recreate with your own code for some reason:

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{ drive }/Television/{ ~plex }

I don't see any notable errors in any of the screenshots above. It's merely asking you to confirm the series. This is normal. There are many shows with similar or even the exact same name. You can toggle Manual Confirmation to Automatic Selection to make decisions automatically. See Q: How can I make FileBot not ask me to confirm each movie or series? for details.


The icon means that there is nothing to do. The current file path is the proposed file path already, so nothing will be renamed if you click the Rename button.





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[begunfx]

Yeah I guess I was taking the long way around to get to

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{ drive }/Television/{ ~plex }

I think that will do the trick. Thank you! The only observation I noticed is that on the destination path I get:

/volumes/video/Television...etc. but my volume name is actually: /volume1

So not sure if that's going to cause issues. I'll run a test (since I can revert) and see what happens.

Okay re: no errors. I guess from first impressions it appeared that those episodes being called out seemed like there were errors but cool then.

Thanks for the suggestion re: sharing images. I'll give one of those tools a try. Appreciate the feedback!

[rednoah]

/volumes/video/Television

This looks like a macOS local file path for a mounted remote folder.

/volume1

This looks like a Synology NAS local file path.



If you mount a remote file system into your local Desktop macOS file system, then the file paths are not going to be exactly the same as what the remote server-side OS sees in its local file system. The file path from / up to the mount point will be different.

[begunfx]

Yep. You are correct.