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I'd like to create a naming format expression with the '{' and '}' characters in the formatted name, something like: How do I escape the curly bracket characters and have them treated as literal characters and not part of a token?

e.g.

Thanks, but maybe I need to clarify more ... the 1234 was supposed to represent an id which is inserted as part of the formatting, e.g. a {tmdbid}, so I want to use '{' and '}' as literal characters. This is what I have tried - based on your reply: but it's giving an "Unexpected input: '}'" error.

I want output like this: where 1427 is the tmdbid.

e.g. or
I recommend using the {plex.id} format if you're naming files for Plex and friends.

Thanks for that. The reason I don't want to use {plex.id} is that it seems to hardcode in a folder name "Media" which I don't want ...

rednoah wrote: ↑27 Apr 2023, 17:36 e.g.

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{ "{" + tmdbid + "}" }

or

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{ "{$tmdbid}" }

I recommend using the {plex.id} format if you're naming files for Plex and friends.

The top-level Media folder is not coded at all.

The category-level Movies / TV Shows folder is part of the {plex.id} format but you can use {plex.id.tail} to get only the path on the right-hand side:

rednoah wrote: ↑12 Sep 2016, 10:03 You can reuse some path components and omit others. {plex.name} and {plex.tail} are particularly useful if you want to rename files in place or if you want the {plex} path but without the top-level Movies or TV Shows folder.

e.g. Avatar (2009)

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{ plex.name }

e.g. Firefly/Season 01/Firefly - S01E01 - Serenity

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{ plex.tail }

or

rednoah wrote: ↑12 Sep 2016, 10:03 e.g. Avatar (2009) {tmdb-19995}/Avatar (2009) {tmdb-19995}

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{ ~plex.id }