I hope that does the appropriate trick necessary to Warp Drive your Movie Library Scans - and save the lives of your storage devices…
BTW:
Auto/Partial Scans are a sure-fire way to stop unnecessary scans of your entire Library Structure every time you add something. Explore those settings and make good use of them if you can.
BTW2: I let FB create those ‘new folders’ on my roots - so I would have ‘brand new’ listings and VPT thumbs with no need to Clean 6000+ Bundles. It was still quite the ordeal. I did 50 at a time - until it was done. <—it took a LOT longer for Plex to work on them, than it took FB to get them situated…lol
Yeah for sure. I’ve only had the drives for about 6 months so you bring up a good point that I have thought about. Unnecessary wear and tear on the drives every time I do a library scan. Especially since 2 drives are full so no need to ever scan them again.
Yeah I initially had it set up that way but then like a dummy started using Handbreak to minimize file size but I did that directly in to my movies folder so plex was constantly scanning for new files after each movie was finished converting. I stopped that and have yet to turn auto scan back on which I will do now.
I’m just glad I wont have to keep scanning my whole library Thanks for the help!
Looks like you got it sorted. I’m on linux so when I done it I used a basic for loop using the following format:
for f in *.mp4; do echo "${f%.mp4}"; mkdir "${f%.mp4}"; mv "${f%.mp4}".* "${f%.mp4}"; done
This would take the name of each mp4 file in a folder, strip the .mp4 part of the name, create a folder with the name and then move it and any other files like srt with the same name into that folder. Took approx 5-10 minutes on my NAS when I done at the time.
If you had used Filebot, it would have taken care of the subs for you.
Plus, it has an “undo changes” feature, which works even across sessions. Theoretically, you can undo changes which happened weeks ago.
It helps to map the media share of the NAS to a drive letter, so Filebot on your Windows computer can easily access it.
Then you can incorporate this drive letter into the renaming pattern, e.g. H:\Movies\{n} ({y})/{n} ({y}) - {vf} [{vc}_{ac}_{channels}]{'.'+lang}
@TheRealMojoJojo have you installed FileBot on your NAS or are you trying to run it from a PC over the NAS files?
I have it installed on my Synology NAS … I have a folder I use to “dump” any new files and the FileBot running a scheduled task to rename and sort into folders
I have gone with the default FileBot folder structure that it creates itself
\Movies (Then used this as Plex Movies Library)
\TV Shows (Then used this as Plex TV Library)
\Unsorted
Hi, I figured out how to get the package to show in the “package center” but I am at a loss for how to run it the way you do. My DSM version is DSM 6.2.3-25426 Update 3. Thanks for assisting with this
Hi, yes I am using Windows 10 for my PC and am using a Synology DS418play NAS to store all my data on four 16TB drives.
I am accessing the NAS using windows explorer…inside the DSM it gives me a windows explorer address like this \MyDiskStation which gives me access to all the drives.
That’s called a “UNC path”.
If you now right-click on any of the shares/folders underneath the \\MyDiskStation host, you can connect them to a drive letter. Which then makes it easier to reference this file share in the future from within other software, like Filebot.
For best results, you create a username+password combination on the NAS which is identical to the username+password which you are using on your Windows box. That way you don’t need to authenticate every time you access the file share.
Thanks for the help!
