FileBot

Hello all,

I've written a script that automatically processes recorded video files and in the course of that calls the filebot CLI to rename and move the files with clean filenames. The renaming part works well in general, but I encountered a specific problem, I could not solve yet.

The script passes two files to filebot – a video file and a corresponding .edl file (a marker to skip commercials). Now in certain situations a .edl file at the target destination exists, but no video file. Then filebot moves the video file and leaves the .edl in place, no matter what setting for --conflict I choose. Unfortunately this doesn't make any sense since the .edl belongs to and works with just that one specific video.

Does anybody know how to make filebot process either ALL passed files or NONE if any conflict appears? Alternatively if filebot would not move the files at all, but instead return the new path and filename according to the naming settings it would also solve this.

I'm sure this would both be possible with a script, but before digging into the groovy language I'd prefer a CLI option.

Many thanks in advance!

Malte

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This log shows that FileBot works as expected:
The command and console output is pretty useful, eh?

Hi Rednoah,

thank you for the super fast reply!

Of course I can provide a sample:
The file S05E07.Unangreifbar.edl already exists in the target directory, so the video file is moved, while the corresponding .edl is not.

Just to be clear, my question was not about an unexpected behaviour from filebot. It does exactly what it is supposed to do! The question is, if there is a CLI parameter, to modify the behaviour to only move either all files if there are no conflicts, or no file at all if there is any conflict.
Or alternatively a command to move no file at all, but instead output the determined new filename and path in a way that can be used in a shell script.
Cheers!

Malte

I see. You want FileBot to treat these files as a single unit. Unfortunately, that's not supported. In this case, your only option is --conflict override, or building some more complex logic around the filebot calls to do all the pre- and post-checks you want. For example, you could process files into a temporary directory first, and then compare that to your real output folder to see if there's any overlaps, and then decided to move or not to move based on that.

Thank you!

Using a temporary dir might be the way to go then. I'll look further into that.

And thanks for this lovely piece of software, Filebot really makes life way easier!

Cheers Malte