FileBot

I tried to rename a series "Y: The Last Man", and fileBot did not removed the ":", I had no way to remove it either. How do you get around that?

What custom format are you using?


The {plex} format should take care of corner cases (i.e. starting with Y: unfortunately makes the file name an absolute file path on Windows) such as this:
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Hi Rednoah and thank you for your detailed reply. I was not trying to change anything, just using the default values. It worked for years without needing to change anything. I was quite suprized that FileBot did not detect Illegal characters before attempting to rename the files. That should not happen.

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The {plex} format should take care of corner cases (i.e. starting with Y: unfortunately makes the file name an absolute file path on Windows) such as this:

This was a brilliant recommandation, thank you very very much!!!