Renaming Changes : To / Inside OS X

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iamUNIX
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Renaming Changes : To / Inside OS X

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I just downloaded 'Filebot' for my MacBook Pro / OS X Mavericks & pumped three movies and selected a database source and changed the names of the files. However when I view the files in OS X, they appear to have a / in between the movie name and the title, it shows up as:

Movie/ Title.mp4 instead of Movie: Title.mp4. When I view the files in the command line, they appear correct:

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[iamunix:movies]$ ls -l *.mp4
-rwx------@ 1 carlos  users   735323108 Sep  2 20:08 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.mp4
-rwx------@ 1 carlos  users  1528755813 Sep  7 13:20 X-Men: First Class.mp4
However in OS X, the files appears as the attached screenshot...

Is there a way to fix this? I've not seen this before / read the FAQ / and never used this utility before today.
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Re: Renaming Changes : To / Inside OS X

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1.
Looks like Finder doesn't like colon. Ask Google for details. If FileBot can rename files with colon then I'm sure FileBot can also revert files with colon (Rename History -> Revert) or just use Console to strip colons from filenames.

2.
Next time FileBot proposes to remove invalid characters, just let it ;)
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