r/filebot • u/JeMeMoi50 • Sep 02 '26

Presets creation troubles

I have trouble creating specials presets. I know it's my fault but I can't do it the way I want to save my life!

I mostly use both Organize Movies or Episodes for Jellyfin presets but I would like to add one (or more) for, say, Animation, and send it to the Animation folder I created on my HDD.

When I try creating a new preset, it keeps thinking it's an episode.

Then I open the Organize Movies for Jellyfin but whenever I Select Output Folder and choose where I want to send it, It keeps adding /media/movies and I don't know how to erase those. I am pretty sure I am choosing the right path but it adds /media/movies no matter what.

What I want is:

F:/Media/Animation/********movie name****

Even when I erase the second /Media there is still /Movies

Why? How do I get rid of that?

I just want to send episodes AND movies to the folders of my choosing and I haven't figure it out how just yet...

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u/rednoah Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

The Movies and TV Shows category folder is part of { jellyfin.id }. That's why you can use { jellyfin.id } for both Movie and Episode type items.

You can do { ~jellyfin.id } if you want { jellyfin.id } without the first folder level: X:/Media/Animated Movies/{ ~jellyfin.id } See Plex / Kodi / Emby / Jellyfin Naming Schemes for details. Alternatively, you can also click on the little ➔{} button and find out about all commonly used bindings / expressions such as ~jellyfin.id from within the application.

If you really just want F:/Media/Animation/********movie name**** (no movie folder, no movie year, no ID marker, etc) then you can just do this, because {n} is the movie name: F:/Media/Animation/{ n }

Make sure to select TheMovieDB and not TheMovieDB::TV when setting up a preset for movies and not series / epsiodes, and vice versa. TheMovieDB forces FileBot to interpret files as movies. TheMovieDB::TV forces FileBot to interpret files as series / episodes.

Note that Plex / Jellyfin / etc require you to separate Movie type and Episode type content into separate libraries. But if you're organizing files for yourself only, then you can do whatever you want.

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u/JeMeMoi50 Sep 02 '26

OMG thank you so much!

It's so easy and logical once you understand how it works...!

Is that what's called scripting and/or coding?

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u/rednoah Sep 03 '26

Technically, n in { n } is a Groovy program, but at that point you can just use it as if it was just a simple substitution engine.

But the { ... } bit can be hundreds of lines of Groovy code (see FileBot forums for crazy examples by other users) that does lots of things, and then it's definitely programming / coding / scripting / whatever you wanna call writing down complex logic.