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preserving Collection subfolder names when mixed with single movie subfolders
Posted: 09 Oct 2024, 11:03
by yhm28
For example a set of movies, where each movie is in an identically named parent folder, with some grouped into "Collection" folders
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Movies/ (top folder)
Movie 1 (year)/Movie 1 (year).mkv
Movie 2 (year)/Movie 2 (year).mkv
Movie 3 (year)/Movie 3 (year).mkv
# COLLECTION - Superman/ (subfolder within Movies)
Superman Movie 1 (year)/Superman Movie 1 (year).mkv
Superman Movie 2 (year)/Superman Movie 2 (year).mkv
Superman Movie 3 (year)/Superman Movie 3 (year).mkv
What expression (if any) can preserve this structure? Or will I have to do each "Collection" folder individually?
Re: preserving Collection subfolder names when mixed with single movie subfolders
Posted: 09 Oct 2024, 12:31
by rednoah
You can use
{folder} to use the current folder in your format.
e.g. rename files in place, explicitly by generating absolute file paths with the same parent folder path:
You can do things like
folder[0..2] or
folder[-3..-1] or
folder[1..-2] to get the first N or last N or N in-between path components, but you may find it difficult to programmatically know if a file path contains a collection folder or not and which specific folder levels are part of the path you want to preserve. In this case I'd probably just do
"take everything after the /Movies/ bit" like so:
{relativeFile} may also work, but this one is more magical as it relies on FileBot internals to detect the
"structure root" folder to then take the remaining file path from there: