FileBot

After latest FileBot, I get a warning from Windows telling me the renamed "file has properties that can't be moved to the new location." This did not happen before upgrade and doesn't "seem" to be causing any problems other than it is annoying.

What's going on?

FileBot uses xattr metadata. If you move a file that has xattr metadata to file system that does not support xattr (e.g. FAT) then some versions of Windows may warn you that this metadata will get lost. That said, I haven't seen these warnings since Windows 7 / 8 myself at the very least.


If you cannot enable xattr support on the target file system / network share, then you can configure FileBot to store metadata into text files or configure FileBot to not store metadata at all. Please read xattr metadata.