Endless re-conversions if destination directory name ends with a period

Bugs / Feature Requests Bugs
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Hi,

I use MceBuddy to rename and move .wtv recordings for Plex. The task moves the show in to a file folder with the show name and renames the file to add show name, season, and episode. Most of the time this works fine, except with show names that have a period in them, for example Magnum P.I. & S.W.A.T.

When the show name has a period, the operation is completed and then the renamed show is processed again, repeatedly. I end up with the show, within nested folders. For example: \MEDIACENTER\Recorded TV\S.W.A.T\S.W.A.T\S.W.A.T\S.W.A.T\S.W.A.T\S.W.A.T. - S05E05_2021_11_05.wtv.

To stop this, I only allow MceBuddy to run during certain hours and then the next day I need to manually move the file to the top level folder and delete the remaining blank folders. This seems to stop the process.

Looking through the logs, I see errors about not being able to access the multi-folder show names, but was wondering if that was because they are still being processed?

I have attached some logs to illustrate and would appreciate any assistance in getting to the root cause.

Thank you.
djc
mcebuddy.zip (57.0 KB)

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Thanks for reporting this and providing the logs. We were able to replicate the issue. It looks like you ran into a unique condition where windows doesn’t allow directory names to end with .
So with Magnum P.I., when your destination sub directory name ended with a ., MCEBuddy recorded it with the ., where as Windows would create a subdirectory without the last . and this caused a mismatch between the saved history and actual paths causing the infinite conversion loop you experienced.

We’ve fixed this behavior in today’s 2.5.7 BETA build

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Thanks a lot for getting back to me. I don’t normally install beta versions, but I will install this one tomorrow.

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I updated to Beta Build 2.5.7 and both S.W.A.T. and Magnum P.I. recorded last night. Based on the task completing email I received this morning, S.W.A.T. appears ok, however, Magnum P.I. converted a second time.

Here is the emailed report:
Conversion #1
Source Video → \MEDIACENTER\Recorded TV2\Magnum P.I._WCBSDT (WCBS-DT)_2021_11_12_20_55_00.wtv
Converted Video → \MEDIACENTER\Recorded TV2\Magnum P.I\Magnum P.I. - S04E06_2021_11_12.wtv
Profile → WTV Unprocessed
Conversion Task → Move WTV Recorded TV
Converted At → 2021-11-13T01:23:25
Time taken to convert (hh:mm) → 00:18

Conversion #2
Source Video → \MEDIACENTER\Recorded TV2\Magnum P.I\Magnum P.I. - S04E06_2021_11_12.wtv
Converted Video → \MEDIACENTER\Recorded TV2\Magnum P.I\Magnum P.I\Magnum P.I. - S04E06_2021_11_12.wtv
Profile → WTV Unprocessed
Conversion Task → Move WTV Recorded TV
Converted At → 2021-11-13T02:46:21
Time taken to convert (hh:mm) → 00:17

I am away for a day or two, so I don’t have access to the logs. Let me know if you require them and I will upload when I return.

Thanks for all of your assistance.
dc

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I will need all 3 logs, MCEBuddy + 2 conversions to see what’s going on

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mcebuddy.zip (98.4 KB)

Here are the logs.

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A post was split to a new topic: Converting converted files

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They are two different files completely from two different folders

Job for \MEDIACENTER\Recorded TV3\The Blacklist_WNBCDT (WNBC-DT)_2021_11_11_19_57_00.wtv converted successfully to \MEDIACENTER\Recorded TV3\The Blacklist\The Blacklist - S09E04_2021_11_11.wtv using Conversion Task Move WTV Recorded TV and Profile WTV Unprocessed

and

Job for \MEDIACENTER\Recorded TV2\The Blacklist\The Blacklist - S09E05_2021_11_18.wtv converted successfully to \MEDIACENTER\Recorded TV2\The Blacklist\The Blacklist\The Blacklist - S09E05_2021_11_18.wtv using Conversion Task Move WTV Recorded TV and Profile WTV Unprocessed

This issue has been resolved. If you have another issue please open a new ticket with the appropriate logs attached