FileBot

Posted: **28 Oct 2017, 05:14**

I have been using Filebot for some time now and recently purchases it on the Microsoft store since then my history in the GUI has not matched up with what renaming has actually happened in the CLI. The history.xml file is correct for CLI renames but not for GUI renames.
For example, I recently renamed stranger things from CLI which appears in history.xml

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    </sequence>
    <sequence date="2017-10-28T01:39:30.019+13:00">
        <rename dir="E:\Complete\Stranger.Things.S02E01.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.x264-STRiFE[rarbg]" from="stranger.things.s02e01.internal.1080p.web.x264-strife.mkv" to="E:\TV Shows\Stranger Things\Season 2\Stranger Things - S02E01 - Chapter One MADMAX.mkv"/>
    </sequence>
    <sequence date="2017-10-28T01:42:43.975+13:00">
        <rename dir="E:\Complete\Stranger.Things.S02E08.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.x264-STRiFE[rarbg]" from="stranger.things.s02e08.internal.1080p.web.x264-strife.mkv" to="E:\TV Shows\Stranger Things\Season 2\Stranger Things - S02E08 - Chapter Eight The Mind Flayer.mkv"/>
    </sequence>
    <sequence date="2017-10-28T01:43:40.417+13:00">
        <rename dir="E:\Complete\Stranger.Things.S02E04.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.x264-STRiFE[rarbg]" from="stranger.things.s02e04.internal.1080p.web.x264-strife.mkv" to="E:\TV Shows\Stranger Things\Season 2\Stranger Things - S02E04 - Chapter Four Will the Wise.mkv"/>
    </sequence>
    <sequence date="2017-10-28T02:13:42.063+13:00">
        <rename dir="E:\Complete\Stranger.Things.S02E07.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.x264-STRiFE[rarbg]" from="stranger.things.s02e07.internal.1080p.web.x264-strife.mkv" to="E:\TV Shows\Stranger Things\Season 2\Stranger Things - S02E07 - Chapter Seven The Lost Sister.mkv"/>
    </sequence>
    <sequence date="2017-10-28T02:15:43.090+13:00">
        <rename dir="E:\Complete\Stranger.Things.S02E06.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.x264-STRiFE[rarbg]" from="stranger.things.s02e06.internal.1080p.web.x264-strife.mkv" to="E:\TV Shows\Stranger Things\Season 2\Stranger Things - S02E06 - Chapter Six The Spy.mkv"/>
    </sequence>
    <sequence date="2017-10-28T02:27:42.192+13:00">
        <rename dir="E:\Complete\Stranger.Things.S02E02.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.x264-STRiFE[rarbg]" from="stranger.things.s02e02.internal.1080p.web.x264-strife.mkv" to="E:\TV Shows\Stranger Things\Season 2\Stranger Things - S02E02 - Chapter Two Trick or Treat, Freak.mkv"/>
    </sequence>
    <sequence date="2017-10-28T02:29:01.047+13:00">
        <rename dir="E:\Complete\Stranger.Things.S02E03.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.x264-STRiFE[rarbg]" from="stranger.things.s02e03.internal.1080p.web.x264-strife.mkv" to="E:\TV Shows\Stranger Things\Season 2\Stranger Things - S02E03 - Chapter Three The Pollywog.mkv"/>
    </sequence>
    <sequence date="2017-10-28T02:34:15.400+13:00">
        <rename dir="E:\Complete\Stranger.Things.S02E05.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.x264-STRiFE[rarbg]" from="stranger.things.s02e05.internal.1080p.web.x264-strife.mkv" to="E:\TV Shows\Stranger Things\Season 2\Stranger Things - S02E05 - Chapter Five Dig Dug.mkv"/>
    </sequence>
    <sequence date="2017-10-28T02:38:59.963+13:00">
        <rename dir="E:\Complete\Stranger.Things.S02E09.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.x264-STRiFE[rarbg]" from="stranger.things.s02e09.internal.1080p.web.x264-strife.mkv" to="E:\TV Shows\Stranger Things\Season 2\Stranger Things - S02E09 - Chapter Nine The Gate.mkv"/>
    </sequence>
</history>

but it does not appear in the GUI history https://puu.sh/y8Y9g/ae14f71f5d.png.
There is no entry between 28th and the 22nd October.

It is also the same the other way 13 Reasons why was renamed in the GUI and does not appear in history.xml. The last entries are stranger things as above.

Why are the history's not synced and is it possible to have them synced? I find it easier to perform rollbacks with the GUI rather than cli. This was not an issue before downloading from Microsoft store.

Thank you in advance for any help

Posted: **28 Oct 2017, 12:24**

1.
There is only one history, so I'm not sure I understand the problem. Are history entries just lost? That might happen if you kill the process rather than exiting the app normally. The session history is in memory and synced to the persistent xml file when the FileBot process exits normally.

2.
If you have two separate and independent histories then you probably have two separate and independent FileBot installations. In this case I would recommend uninstalling all installations of FileBot and then only installing FileBot via the Windows Store.

Posted: **01 Nov 2017, 00:30**

Well, it seems like there is two separate histories one for the CLI and one for the GUI.
I will try uninstalling and re-installing but I would have assumed installing via windows store would take over the previous version but I'll try it and see.

Posted: **01 Nov 2017, 03:28**

After uninstalling from the programs and features section I could still launch filebot which I assume is the windows store version. I did try to search for duplicates but couldn't find any.
I have found the installation path for the Windows store version(it was not easy to find, hidden folders, no permissions etc). "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PointPlanck.FileBot_4.7.13.0_x64__49ex9gnthnt12". I had to use the following viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5157 in order to prevent the cmd window popup.

So due to the two installs the GUI running from the Windows Store had a separate history to the CLI running from an install downloaded off the website. The history.xml files for each install is in separate places hence the different histories.

TLDR. If you install from the windows store uninstall any old versions of filebot as the windows store install path is different

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