Correct folder configuration for scanning and copying?

felciano

29-05-2010 10:48:54

Hi --

I've been trying to get TV Rename working and have never gotten it quite right. I think it may be because I'm unclear on which folders serve which purpose in the TV Rename usage model. I've tried digging into the docs but the screenshots don't look like the latest TV Rename, so was hoping for help on the specifics.

I have:

C:\Downloads\Southland\Southland HDTV s02 ep01.avi
C:\Downloads\Southland\Southland HDTV s02 ep02.avi
C:\Downloads\Burn Notice\burn.notice.3x16.avi

What I would like is:

M:\My Media\TV\Southland\Season 02\Southland - S02E01 - Phase Three.avi
M:\My Media\TV\Southland\Season 02\Southland - S02E02 - Butch & Sundance.avi
M:\My Media\TV\Burn Notice\Season 03\Burn Notice - S03E16 - Devil You Know.avi

My questions are:

1. When I teach TV Rename about Show definitions, which folders do I use as "base folder"? I assume I point to the destination folders (under M:\My Media in the above example). Is that correct?

2. I have a Downloads folder that new episodes appear in. Some torrent downloaders let you auto-create a Downloads subfolder based on the episode name. Should I have my new episodes be all at the top-level, or grouped by show name?

3. I would like to scan this Downloads folder for new episodes, rename them as necessary, and then copy the correctly-named episode into an Show-named folder in my media collection. Based on my reading of the documentation, this is supported in a "Finding and Organizing" tab, which I cannot find in TV Rename 2.2.0b5. Has that been changed / moved / renamed?

4. Finally, in case I manually add episodes to the Media directories, I would like TV rename to scan these folders periodically to rename any new, poorly named files it finds. How can I set this up? As I understand it, despite the name, the "Scan Folders" function looks for new folders (not files) and uses that to add new Shows to TV Rename, so that is I think NOT what I want...

Thanks in advance for your help!

Ramon