Autoreplace ':' with '-'

[Montago]

My Windows 3.1 machine doesn't support colon ':' in filenames... neither does Windows 95, 98, XP, 2000, 2003, Vista, 7 nor 8.1...

So could you please auto-replace colon ':' with a minus '-' (preferably also with a padded space in case the colon is up close to the main title)

eg: "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - S01E01" is clearly not valid - which FileBot already know and a prompt will popoup.. However, I cant find a setting that auto-correct these titles !!

the obvious solution would be to replace : with - like this (padded):
"Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey - S01E01"

This would be AWESOME !... just like FileBot .. Goddamn AWESOME !!!!

Thanks

[rednoah]

So? Logs? What's not working?

FileBot is clearly already fixing the names, and has been since 2008

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Rename episodes using [TheTVDB]
Auto-detected query: [Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey]
Fetching episode data for [Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey]
Stripping invalid characters from new path: TV Shows/Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/Season 01/Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - S01E01 - Standing Up In The Milky Way
[COPY] Rename [D:\workspace\testdata\AMC-TEST\Cosmos.A.Spacetime.Odyssey.S01E01.avi] to [D:\workspace\output\TV Shows\Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey\Season 01\Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey - S01E01 - Standing Up In The Milky Way.avi]
Processed 1 files

If the issue you mean is actually that want to replace : with - instead of the default behavior that just strips invalid chars, then please RTFM.

The solution will look like this:

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{n.replace(':', ' -')}