FileBot

Yesterday, I noticed FileBot not matching shows correctly when the episode is a high season number. This is new, as the same show worked fine last week. For example, Grey's Anatomy S21E16, if I search with TVDB, it matches the wrong episode, and if I "Edit Match" the options only go up to Season 16. If I try to match on the MovieDB it has the same issue, but this time the "Edit Match" goes up to Season 19. I had the same issue with Law & Order SVU, which is in Season 26. Everything else I have tried with lower, more "normal" season numbers seems to work fine.

This issue seems to be specific to one computer, as a different computer I tried the same file on works fine. Unfortunately, the two are completely different specifications and operating systems, so it doesn't offer much insight into the issues cause.

What is the episode title of the Grey's Anatomy S21E16 file you have?

FileBot fundamentally cannot reliably match files where the SxE number is either wrong or misleading (according to your selected database and episode order) especially if the episode title is missing from the file path as well. See Match Mode: Opportunistic vs Strict for details.




EDIT:

Note that in this case, Grey's Anatomy S21E16 exists and thus FileBot matches the file just fine:


Did you perhaps misconfigure your preferred Episode Order for the files at hand? Please make sure that you have selected Episode Order: Airdate (default) and not Episode Order: DVD in which this episode seems to not exist at this point in time:






You can generally use the Episodes tool to inspect the episode list for any given series:

Indeed, I had switched it to DVD order, and forgotten to switch it back. This was compounded by successfully renaming many things in the mean time so by the time I got an error I had forgotten I'd done it.