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Posted: **15 Mar 2023, 00:54**

Good evening,

I just installed Filebot 5.0 and I was able to re-name three tv shows. However when I went to rename Ghosts US Episode 17 of season 2 I get the following error:

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Undefined Variable: Cannot invoke "String.equals(Object)" because "<parameter2>" is null

I do not get any other error. I used FileBot console to capture this error.

Thank for any help on this issue.

Posted: **15 Mar 2023, 02:46**

I can reproduce the issue with TheTVDB and the following sample file:

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Ghosts US S17E02.mp4

I recommend using Episode Mode: TheMovieDB instead.

You can work around the TheTVDB issue by using SHIFT-CLICK <database> and then entering "Ghosts US" manually.

FileBot 5.* uses TheTVDBv4 by default, and this seems to be the issue. You can switch back to TheTVDBv2 by running the following FileBot configuration command once:

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.WebServices.TheTVDB.v2=true

Note that TheTVDBv2 is scheduled to shutdown, and will stop working at some point in time in the future.

EDIT:

Looks like FileBot stumbles if it runs into "a series without a series name" search result which is apparently possible in the new API. I've reported the issue:
https://github.com/thetvdb/v4-api/issues/280

Posted: **18 Mar 2023, 08:57**

FileBot 5.0.1 has been released:
viewtopic.php?p=59304#p59304

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