FileBot

I have a matching problem that I "think" can be fixed if I first improve the name of the file (produced automatically by my DVR in a format I can not change).

Here is my existing format:
The date at the end of the filename is accurate (12-13-2019) but the first date is not (2019-12-12).

Filebot uses that first date to do the matching, but since it is the wrong date, filebot matches the wrong episode.

Is there a way to automatically rename this file as follows:
If I do this manually, Filebot then does it's magic and all is well.

FileBot does take all dates into consideration, but I suppose if there's a new episode every single day, then things get a bit too ambiguous.

You can use FileBot for generic renaming & pre-processing file names:
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e.g. match the last 12-13-2019 pattern and then re-arrange the numbers to 2019-12-13
e.g. as complete generic file format, this should do, get the part before the dash, i.e. the series name, and then add the nicely formatted date:

Super helpful and worked perfectly with CLI also:
Any thoughts/resources on filtering out the already-renamed files? If I run that cli on files that have already been processed once they go from:
to
This will become an issue when I automate the script.

The 06 00 00 bit seems to be quite unique, so we can use --file-filter to only include files that have that one:

TY So much!

I just looked at today's recording and the filename is exactly the same as on Friday. As such, I need to add today's date to the filename. Is this possible? {ny} and other "y"s are related to the movie/series data it seems.

e.g.