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5.0.0 Binding "original": undefined
Posted: 17 Mar 2023, 13:03
by sentience
Since upgrading to Filebot 5.0.0, it's failing to process any format string containing the binding 'original', such as:
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{original}
{emby} - {original}
{emby.derive(" - $original")}
As this binding is still
documented, I gather this must be a bug.
Re: 5.0.0 Binding "original": undefined
Posted: 17 Mar 2023, 13:49
by rednoah
{original} refers to the original file name that was stored to
xattr metadata the first time the file was renamed with FileBot.
{original} is always undefined if the file at hand has never been renamed with FileBot.
Perhaps you mean to use the
{fn} current filename in your format?
Re: 5.0.0 Binding "original": undefined
Posted: 22 Mar 2023, 02:44
by sentience
Weird. {original} worked prior to 5.0.0 on previously-unrenamed files.
I'll give {fn} a try!
Re: 5.0.0 Binding "original": undefined
Posted: 22 Mar 2023, 02:55
by rednoah
{original} did indeed default to the current filename, but that made the binding less versatile and less well-defined and prone to misinterpretation. It can be a problem when a bindings work one way in one context, and another way in another context.
You can use
{original} and explicitly default to
{fn} if undefined like so: