FileBot

Hello I just purchased FileBot yesterday and wish I found it long ago because it is fantastic! So I can get movie folders to be renamed correctly but not with tv shows no matter what database I choose. Any ideas? Also it doesn't even show the little loading symbol in the corner when I try to find the folder data

What are you trying to do? Folder renaming is not supported for TV Shows because it makes little sense to treat a folder as an episode. Do you have one folder per episode? It makes sense to have one folder per movie. Folders like "Walking Dead" or "Walking Dead - Season 1" cannot be renamed as if they were files for obvious reasons, so "folder mode" will only work on folders like "Walking Dead 1x01".

What you want is moving files into a new folder structure and this is supported perfectly fine of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRq2_Pjyko8

For example I have a season of a show that I would like to put into a single folder. Then I would like to have the folder renamed appropriately just like the way it does for movies by doing the control-shift-drop method. Is this a feature only available for movies? Thanks!

That sounds like you want to move files into a new folder structure. See FAQ #1.

e.g. by using a format such as this:

The control-shift-drop method only works for movies, because processing a folder called "Avatar (2009)" is exactly the same as processing a file called "Avatar (2009).mp4". The same principle does not apply to series/season folders.

Maybe it's just because I've been using FileBot for a couple days only, but wouldn't it be good to allow renaming of TV-Show folders? I'd like to add the year to the name of the show and leave everything else as is. Have been looking for a solution for more than an hour now and would be happy if you could advise. BTW, i bought the app store version

tkaufmann wrote:Maybe it's just because I've been using FileBot for a couple days only, but wouldn't it be good to allow renaming of TV-Show folders? I'd like to add the year to the name of the show and leave everything else as is. Have been looking for a solution for more than an hour now and would be happy if you could advise. BTW, i bought the app store version

I haven't personally come across a solution for it other than renaming things manually. Sorry!

The solution is to organize everything into a new structure.

e.g. {n} ... series name
{y} ... year
{fn} ... original filename

That'll leave you with a New Folder where every file is structured and named exactly as per your spec. It'll leave behind an old folder which is empty, use Finder to delete that one if you wish.

But wouldn't that leave all my .nfo, .jpg etc. behind?

If the filenames of the nfo/jpg files match the video files then they'll be moved accordingly, otherwise the nfo/jpg files will be left behind. Doesn't matter either way because that stuff can be generated automatically. FileBot has scripts for that, but you may prefer other GUI tools.

That's way too cumbersome. All I want is to add a year. I understand that as a programmer you need to follow a plan and cannot add any feature that's being requested. But shouldn't a tool meant for renaming be able to do what I want?

FileBot makes sense of files/folders in terms of "Episodes" and "Movies", and concepts such as "Series Folder" or "Season Folder" are distinctively different and thus FileBot can't make sense of them.

Importing an existing media library including nfo/artwork/etc and transforming it into a new folder structure is not supported and not planned.