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plex movie format missing tmdb id in file name

Posted: 14 Dec 2025, 22:09
by kmorgan32
Running Version 5.2.0 (10714) for macOS desktop.

The Plex naming guidelines call for the tmdb id to be present both in the enclosing directory name as well as the file name but I can't find the appropriate format. The format "{drive}/media/{plex.year.id}" provides the id in the directory name but not the file name:

Screenshot

(https://imgur.com/a/filebot-tmdb-id-fol ... le-EnKVqtV is an image link but I haven't been able to get the image to display in this post.)

Is there a way for me to get the id in both the directory and the filename?

Re: plex movie format missing tmdb id in file name

Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 03:32
by rednoah
kmorgan32 wrote: 14 Dec 2025, 22:09 The Plex naming guidelines call for the tmdb id to be present both in the enclosing directory name as well as the file name
:idea: 1 ID marker in the file path is fine. Adding it twice is unnecessary and has no effect.



:arrow: That said, you can use the {plex} binding with the ** operator to splice in extra information in both movie / series folder name and file name as you see fit:

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{ plex ** " {tmdb-$id}" }


:idea: https://imgur.com/a/filebot-tmdb-id-fol ... le-EnKVqtV is a link to a HTML webpage file. https://i.imgur.com/UruKtoL.png is a link to a PNG image file. If you want to embed an image, you need to specify the image file itself and not a webpage that happens to contain one or more images. See How can I share screenshots on the internet? for details.

Re: plex movie format missing tmdb id in file name

Posted: 15 Dec 2025, 21:43
by kmorgan32
Thank you so much for your helpful response.