FileBot

Hi I am using transmission for downloads, filebot for renaming and host the files on my QNAP NAS and use Plex. Is it possible to have Filebot monitor the download directory for new files and then automatically rename and move them to the /movies directory on my NAS? I use the rename function just fine but am manually doing the moves to the NAS right now.

Thanks!

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klebel wrote: ↑07 Feb 2020, 16:03 Renaming and moving files in one action?

Yes. Please read FAQ #1 and learn how format expressions work.



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Presumably, you're asking how to do an automated FileBot setup on QNAP?

On QNAP, filebot is a command-line tool, and so you can build all kinds of integrations with 3rd party tools:
* https://www.filebot.net/linux/qnap.html
* https://www.filebot.net/amc.html

Typically, most users would hook filebot up to some upstream tool directly, i.e. run filebot on download complete.

You can watch for file system events, e.g. by using inotify tools, but on QNAP you might have trouble getting the necessary tools working, though it's generally easy to do on Linux if you have a bit of experience in that regard. Running things on a schedule is usually easier, but on QNAP you still need to be somewhat familiar with the console and cron.