FileBot

I have been all over the forum but I still haven't been able to figure out how to make FileBot automate my process.

Here's how I currently use FileBot:
I have a single movie or multiple movies saved in a holding folder (Y:\Shares\Media). These movies need to be renamed. The basic settings of FileBot work just fine to rename the movies. I like to open the FileBot GUI and select the files I want renamed. This way I can make sure they are correctly named. After FileBot is used to rename the movies, I then create a folder for each movie (same exact name as the movie) and move each movie into their correct folders. Next, I manually move the new folders to: Y:\Shares\Media\Movies.

Below is what I would like to automate with FileBot:
I want FileBot to rename ONLY the movies I select in the GUI, create a folder for each movie with the same name, move each movie into the newly created folder. That's it! I'll manually move the newly created movies/folders to their final destination.

So basically, I want to add two additional steps to the "out of box" rename functionality.

1. 1. Create new folders for each movie in the same parent directory.
   2. Move each movie into the correct folder.

I don't want to specify absolute paths because I may run FileBot on different folders.

So how do I do this

You can move/rename/organize everything in one go by specifying the absolute destination path you want in the format.

e.g. Move to Y:/Shares/Media/Movies/Avatar (2009)/Avatar (2009).mkv e.g. Move to <SAME DRIVE>:/Shares/Media/Movies/Avatar (2009)/Avatar (2009).mkv
If you specify a relative path then FileBot will try to figure out the appropriate root folder and reorganize files accordingly.

e.g. Move to Avatar (2009)/Avatar (2009).mkv e.g. Move to X:/path/to/current/folder/Avatar (2009)/Avatar (2009).mkv Best to open the Format Editor, set a sample file, and play with it for a bit:



@see http://www.filebot.net/naming.html
@see viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2
@see viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4116

Cool...

I replaced the default: With: It works!

Thanks so much for taking the time to help me

The logic where you decide where to move movie folders after processing them with Filebot is probably something that can be expressed in the format expression as well.

Things like "move to the drive with the most free disk space" or "move to different drives based on initial letter" can be copied from the examples:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2