Advanced Settings / Developer Options / System Properties

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How do I set System Properties?

Your custom system properties are stored in the system.properties configuration file in the FileBot application data folder. You can create / modify the system.properties configuration file via Advanced Settings in the Debug Console (open via F5 keyboard shortcut) in the FileBot Desktop application or via the properties script on the command-line.


e.g. Set net.filebot.xattr.store in the FileBot Desktop application via F5 ➔ Application Data ➔ Advanced Settings:




e.g. Set net.filebot.xattr.store in the FileBot Node web application via Tools ➔ System Properties:



e.g. Set net.filebot.xattr.store via the filebot command-line tool:

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.xattr.store=.xattr

e.g. Set net.filebot.xattr.store via the filebot command-line tool in a docker container:

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docker run --rm -it -v data:/data rednoah/filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.xattr.store=.xattr

General Options

Disable Windows file path validation on Unix platforms: unixfs = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def unixfs=true

Configure parallelism level: parallelism = <min>..<max>

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filebot -script fn:properties --def parallelism=8..64

Configure main thread priority: priority = 1..10

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filebot -script fn:properties --def priority=1

User Interface Options

Configure Look and Feel: net.filebot.theme = Darcula | Nimbus | System

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.theme=Darcula

Configure File Dialog implementation: net.filebot.UserFiles.fileChooser = Zenity | Swing | AWT | JavaFX

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.UserFiles.fileChooser=Swing

Configure Trash implementation: net.filebot.UserFiles.trash = System | JNA | XDG | Move | Hide | Delete

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.UserFiles.trash=Delete

System ... use Desktop.moveToTrash implementation
JNA ... use DefaultFileUtils.moveToTrash implementation
XDG ... use /usr/bin/trash or /usr/bin/gio trash system commands
Move ... atomically move files to a Trash folder located at {drive}/Trash for each mount point, drive or network share
Hide ... rename files by adding a . prefix to the file name
Delete ... just delete files

Logging Options

Enable debug logging: net.filebot.logging.debug = ALL | FINE | INFO

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.logging.debug=ALL

Enable color logging: net.filebot.logging.color = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.logging.color=true

Print timestamp for each log record: net.filebot.logging.time = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.logging.time=true

Network Options

Configure HTTP request retry limit and retry delay: try initial request, wait 2 minutes on failure, retry 2nd request, wait 8 minutes on failure, retry 3rd request

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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.CachedResource.retryLimit=2 net.filebot.CachedResource.retryDelay=PT2M net.filebot.CachedResource.retryMultiplier=4

Java Options

Force IPv4 network connections: java.net.preferIPv4Stack = false | true

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filebot -script fn:properties --def java.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

Force UI scale factor: sun.java2d.uiScale = 1 | 2 | 4

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filebot -script fn:properties --def sun.java2d.uiScale=2

Enable Direct3D render pipeline: sun.java2d.d3d = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def sun.java2d.d3d=true

Enable OpenGL render pipeline: sun.java2d.opengl = true | false

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filebot -script fn:properties --def sun.java2d.opengl=true

Java Environment Variables

Manually configure CPU and RAM resource limits for the java process:

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export JAVA_OPTS="-XX:ActiveProcessorCount=1 -Xmx512"
filebot -script fn:sysinfo