Struggling to rename Daytime Soaps

[MattyB]

Hey folks.

Have just started using Filebot 4.5.3 recently in order to rename everything for Kodi/XBMC to scan nicely. The program is an absolute masterpiece however I am having trouble when it comes to (shudder) Daytime Soaps of all things. The girlfriend is an avid fan of The Bold and The Beautiful (judge away) however I am having some trouble getting Filebot to rename the episodes properly.

The files are listed like this: B&B Aug 4 - 14
Whereas XBMC seems to prefer them as: The Bold and The Beautiful 08.04.2014

For the life of me I can't work out how to have the program automatically change these for me. I was playing around with the edit format part of things, and managed to get the name changed to The Bold and The Beautiful, however it keeps pulling random dates out.

Sorry to be a pain and ask for help, and happy new year to you all.

Thanks

[rednoah]

B&B Aug 4 - 14 doesn't make any sense to FileBot, nor me.

If you can somehow preprocess these files and transform them into something more sensible like The Bold and The Beautiful - 04.08.2014 then it should work, assuming that all the data has been entered into TheTVDB correctly.

So you will have to use a generic renaming program first.

You may use this => viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2072