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First of all I'd like to say how great FileBot is and how helpful Rednoah's posts have been setting it up and getting it all working.

Now my question may seem odd. I want to copy the folder of the downloaded torrent that ISN't a TV or Movie torrent. ie. an ebook or something else.

The reasoning behind this is because I use flexget to automate downloads. It also automates the removal of torrents from the client once the seeding ratio has been met. Hence why I want to copy the files and not move them.

Thanks in advance!

If you're using the amc script then you can use the --def unsorted=y option

Thanks for the reply, I think I did try that. Do i have to manually specify the dir for unsorted or will it just create an Unsorted dir like it does with movies, TV.
here is my current command I'm running
"C:\Program Files\FileBot\filebot.exe" -script fn:amc --output "D:/Completed" --log-file amc.log --action duplicate --conflict override -non-strict --def music=y clean=y --def unsorted=y --def plex=192.168.0.254:ojpq6p6e76C1X7Y53znZ artwork=y "ut_dir=D:/Completed/DOWNLOADED/%TR_TORRENT_NAME%" "ut_kind=multi" "ut_title=%TR_TORRENT_NAME%"

I am using transmission that's why I'm using %TR_TORRENT_NAME% ,etc.

YES. It should work as expected by default.

Here's the default unsorted format: IF you want to change the unsorted format, then you can just define --def unsortedFormat, but that's entirely optional.

Thanks for the reply. Again no dice though! I honestly can't figure out why it's not working. The parameters are correct in the log: As you can see I tried manually setting the output of the unsortedFormat and also tried it without.
On further inspection of the log I can see that files other than movies, tv are EXCLUDED ie. unsorted
the file is above the min filesize so not sure why it's excluded from input?

non-video ISO files are always excluded, otherwise they would be processed in movie mode, which is not what you want either.

Try testing with anything but iso images.

an EXE? that didn't work either. anything else I download is either going to be an exe, bin or ISO. Any suggestion on another solution perhaps? A separate script to be called after the regular AMC has finished?

What I'm essentially asking is... if filebot knows what files are EXCLUDED then is there a way to pipe said exclusions to another script or filebot instance? I'm guessing you'd be the best to ask about that

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For *.exe files you're probably just below the minFileSize... I guess the current unsorted feature won't work well for you.

Just in case, here's the definitive guide for exclude rules, i.e. the code:
https://github.com/filebot/scripts/blob ... roovy#L244


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Sure you can, but that's more of a bash problem... go ask http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bash

Pseudo Code:

The unsorted=y feature isn't working for me either, FWIW. I'm going to go the grep route, but just wanted to mention it.

I tried copying videos to new nonsense filenames (e.g. "foobar.baz" - a few variations). I also tried throwing in other documents (e.g. an 11MB PDF file). Nothing seemed to work.

Not a huge deal, just a head-scratcher.

After I wrote the above I realized that the grep route is actually a pain, because there's no distinction between something that ought to be ignored/thrown away (e.g. .par files), and something that is unrecognized (e.g., the extra files I copied in there to test).

So here's my current solution:
So, move known files out, then clean up all the known crap, deleting directories if they are empty. But leave anything that isn't recognized, I'll look at it later.

I want the folders for each download to get removed, but not the parent 'complete' folder. I didn't read through the cleaner script source, but just decided to loop over each download. If there's a less verbose way to do this, I'm all ears.

Note: if you use torrents, you should use a different strategy since you'll need to serve the downloaded files to maintain your ratio. Please don't use it and then blame me

Note 2: the astute will note there is a small race here. If a new download finishes during the execution of the amc script, it will get cleaned before it gets moved. But since cleaner doesn't act on a known file, it should not matter much. Assuming there are no cleaned files that are used to match.

I guess --def unsorted=y really doesn't cut it for generic files. It really just applies to movies/episodes/music that can't be identified, and will then be moved to Unsorted.

The amc script won't process any non-media files. So random stuff like *.pdf files will always always pass through without being processed in any way.


As for the cleaner script, does setting --def root=n not work?

I guess --def unsorted=y really doesn't cut it for generic files.

Right. Maybe tweak the docs a little bit to make it more clear what it's useful for and what it's not? I'm happy with my current solution, though it was a bit more work than setting a command-line flag.

As for the cleaner script, does setting --def root=n not work?

I think I misunderstood what the root=n behavior is. I thought it would remove the files and leave empty directories behind. So I've just taken the loop out of my script, thanks!

vthunder wrote:

I guess --def unsorted=y really doesn't cut it for generic files.

Right. Maybe tweak the docs a little bit to make it more clear what it's useful for and what it's not? I'm happy with my current solution, though it was a bit more work than setting a command-line flag.

Sorry - to expand on this a little bit: I *did* test with media files that were not recognized. I took videos and mangled the names so they would not be recognized.

So I actually still think there's a bug there somewhere, even for media files.

Works for me: Logs?

Ah I think I know why it didn't work for me. Looking through the logs... I used nonsense file extensions, not just names. e.g., "foobar.xyz". So the logs just have
Contents were unchanged and `file` would've reported such, but I guess filebot only looks at the filename and couldn't figure out that it was a media file at all. So it got excluded. Correct?

Thanks!

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