Wrong format being copied.

[Misinthe]

Good afternoon everyone, I just started having an issue that when I try to "copy" the name from the "New Names" section, instead of using the format that is set there, it copies that format that shows in the "Episodes" section.
For Example:
When I search the episode in the "Episodes" tab, it'll show "Lopez vs Lopez - 3x01 - Lopez vs Wedding".
Then when I send it to "Rename", the format is set to show Lopez vs Lopez - S03E01 - Lopez vs Wedding".
But when I copy the name from "Rename" and try to paste it, it pastes the format from the "Episodes" tab ("Lopez vs Lopez - 3x01 - Lopez vs Wedding"). And I noticed that the little square on top of the screen that used to say "Content has been copied" does not appear anymore.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

[rednoah]

Copy & Paste for Episode / Movie items has been unified across both Episodes and Rename tools. That means that when you copy & paste from Rename ➔ New Names it'll copy the Episode object (same as copying Episode times from the Episodes tool) and not the formatted file path. That'll allow users to quickly duplicate Episode items within New Names via CTRL+C / CTRL-V.

What is your use case?

[Misinthe]

Copy & Paste for Episode / Movie items has been unified across both Episodes and Rename tools. That means that when you copy & paste from Rename ➔ New Names it'll copy the Episode object (same as copying Episode times from the Episodes tool) and not the formatted file path. That'll allow users to quickly duplicate Episode items within New Names via CTRL+C / CTRL-V.

What is your use case?

My use case is, I would copy the Rename > New Names formatted name and paste it into the name of the file when downloading through torrent, this way the file will have the correct name when downloading and I can keep seeding. If I modify it after it's downloaded then I can't seed it. And I haven't found a way to better integrate FileBot with Bittorrent so that I can modify the names without impacting the seeding.

[rednoah]

My use case is, I would copy the Rename > New Names formatted name and paste it into the name of the file when downloading through torrent, this way the file will have the correct name when downloading and I can keep seeding. If I modify it after it's downloaded then I can't seed it. And I haven't found a way to better integrate FileBot with Bittorrent so that I can modify the names without impacting the seeding.

Effectively manually renaming every single file? Except the file path is copy & paste from FileBot? That seems like a huge amount of manual labour...

We typically use hardlinks for this kind of use case. Since you can have the same file at 2 or more file paths, you just have the file once at the original file path, and then a second time at the nice and clean library file path. The How do I organize files for Plex? video tutorial has a section on that.

[Misinthe]

My use case is, I would copy the Rename > New Names formatted name and paste it into the name of the file when downloading through torrent, this way the file will have the correct name when downloading and I can keep seeding. If I modify it after it's downloaded then I can't seed it. And I haven't found a way to better integrate FileBot with Bittorrent so that I can modify the names without impacting the seeding.

Effectively manually renaming every single file? Except the file path is copy & paste from FileBot? That seems like a huge amount of manual labour...

We typically use hardlinks for this kind of use case. Since you can have the same file at 2 or more file paths, you just have the file once at the original file path, and then a second time at the nice and clean library file path. The How do I organize files for Plex? video tutorial has a section on that.

Good evening, yes, I do manual renaming of every file when I want to seed them, it is very labor intensive, I've looked into having duplicate locations and automate everything with Sonarr/Radarr but I have about 30TB of media and am usually seeding about 2000 torrents, so that's a lot of extra storage I would need to get lol.

[rednoah]

A hardlink will not use any extra disk storage. The very concept of a hardlink is that it's just a file system that points to some physical data on disk, thus multiple hardlinks (i.e. file paths) can point to the same physical data on disk.


Presumably you have a complex setup that somehow prevents you from using hardlinks? Care to elaborate?




EDIT:

If you must do it your way, then I recommend looking into how to remote control your torrent client ala Relocate files in qBT. That said, I see no reason why you cannot use hardlinks, or symlinks at the very least if you happen to seed from a remote network share.




EDIT 2:

Assuming that you're using qBT, I've updated Relocate files in qBT example to cover your kind of use case.

[Misinthe]

A hardlink will not use any extra disk storage. The very concept of a hardlink is that it's just a file system that points to some physical data on disk, thus multiple hardlinks (i.e. file paths) can point to the same physical data on disk.


Presumably you have a complex setup that somehow prevents you from using hardlinks? Care to elaborate?




EDIT:

If you must do it your way, then I recommend looking into how to remote control your torrent client ala Relocate files in qBT. That said, I see no reason why you cannot use hardlinks, or symlinks at the very least if you happen to seed from a remote network share.




EDIT 2:

Assuming that you're using qBT, I've updated Relocate files in qBT example to cover your kind of use case.

Thank you for this info, my set up is, I have a Windows Server that has my Plex/Emby Servers, as well as qBT and my ARR stack. qBT downloads the files to my TrueNAS server that has an SMB share set for it. So qBT writes the files to the SMB and the Plex/Emby Servers read the info from it.

I'll look into the hardlinks and/or symlinks to see if that's something I can work with. I appreciate all the help!

[rednoah]

Good evening, I'm sorry to bother you, I was wondering if you could help me out. You were telling me about hard links a couple of days ago (viewtopic.php?p=63852#p63852), I have not figured out how to do it, everything I find online and on YouTube just says to add the folder paths on Sonarr and Radarr but they don't explain how the actual linking works or how we can rename the links. Do you know of any guide I could follow that better explains this? Thank you!

You hardlink A to B, just like you would rename or copy A to B. The result of hardlinking A to B is that both A to B exists as if you had copied the file. The operation is instant and does not use disk space because you are copying the file system entry rather than the physical bits on disk. The original hardlink is the file you have (NOTE: the thing you know as "file" in daily life is technically a hardlink) and the second hardlink is the file at the correct file and folder path. The second hardlink is created with the correct file name at the correct file path and thus does not need to be renamed.

Please read Hard link - Wikipedia for details:




Please watch the How do I organize files for Plex? video tutorial. Please take special note of the 0:54 Use hardlinks to save time and disk space section.

[Misinthe]

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I know it's been a while, I just wanted to say thank you again. I was over complicating things, I thought I needed another program because the Trash guides were confusing me, I also want to set up Sonarr/Radarr for this, but as far as FileBot, it's very simple.