FileBot won't select correct show

[maurice]

Hi!

I've recently purchased FileBot to clean up my wife's and my own media collections and I've run into several bugs and weird issues so far...

I've been able to work around most (mostly with a lot of manual matching), but I have been unable to solve this one, no matter what I try.

While going through my wife's anime collection, I am unable to process a show called "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" (tmdb-5405).

No matter what I seem to do, FileBot will match with "Sailor Moon" (tmdb-3570). During the initial match, it will prompt to confirm what series, I will select "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" and it will match with "Sailor Moon".

Even, when I MANUALLY try to match a single file with "Edit Match", when I enter and select "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" in the drop down, it goes to "Sailor Moon".

Strict or opportunistic matching no difference. This is with v5.2.0.

This has been very frustrating. I hope this can be resolved. Thanks!

[rednoah]

Please share sample file paths as text so that we can have a look. I'll have to try this myself to see how to best tackle this specific use case.


In general, you can always manually select a series if auto-detection does not work for one reason or another. You can even enter the numeric ID instead of the series name / series year if that is necessary from some reason. Please read FAQ #2: How do I fix misidentified files? if you have not done so already.

EDIT

SHIFT-CLICK <database> to force manual input with "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" as query works just fine:




If you use auto-detection mode, then FileBot will search for both "Sailor Moon" and "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon". The answer to the first query is obvious so FileBot is not asking you to confirm. The second query is unfortunately does require you to confirm the series, because "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" can refer to both the original Anime and the life-action series. If you select the live-action series there, then both original Anime and life-action series are being considered for matching, and the original Anime always wins on account of being far more popular in absence of otherwise identifying information (e.g. episode title, episode airdate, series year, series ID, etc) in the file name.

[maurice]

Here are the files I had: https://pastebin.com/WMjRPTJR



The shift-click method worked once I finally figured out what to click, thanks!