I've run into this a lot of times when using FileBot over the years, but I'd really appreciate if parent folder names could be considered during the matching process. Sometimes I'll have a bunch of episodes for say Rifftrax that have file names like "SafelyWalkToSchool_highTV" which FileBot is very good at matching in a folder named "Rifftrax" or "Rifftrax (2006)" and FileBot will refuse to match them thinking each is its own series or something.
I'd love to have the option for it to get the show name from the name of the parent folder so that I don't have to go and append "Rifftrax - " to the front of all of the files before they're matched or (what I do more often) which is have to look up the info in the Episodes tab first and then send it to the Rename tab.
Thanks!
Consider parent folder names in matching option
Re: Consider parent folder names in matching option
mrmiyamoto wrote: ↑09 Jun 2025, 21:47 I've run into this a lot of times when using FileBot over the years, but I'd really appreciate if parent folder names could be considered during the matching process.

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$ filebot -rename -r . --output . --db TheMovieDB::TV -non-strict --action TEST --log INFO
[TEST] from [firefly/serenity.mkv] to [Firefly - 1x11 - Serenity.mkv]

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$ filebot -rename -r . --output . --db TheMovieDB::TV -non-strict --action TEST --log INFO
Failed to detect query for files: [Rifftrax/SafelyWalkToSchool_highTV.mkv]
Failed to identify or process any files
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EDIT 3:
I have removed RiffTrax from the exclude list:
https://github.com/filebot/data/commit/ ... 80b86ebb18
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Re: Consider parent folder names in matching option
Thanks so much for the help!