# Episode Renaming not working properly 2.4.10

**URL:** <https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/episode-renaming-not-working-properly-2-4-10/2773>\
**Category:** Metadata and Renaming\
**Created:** [April 13, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/episode-renaming-not-working-properly-2-4-10/2773 "2019-04-13T03:31:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 13, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/episode-renaming-not-working-properly-2-4-10/2773/2 "2019-04-13T20:35:12Z")

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You filename format is invalid, it’s mixed.

See this topic for details for formats recognized by MCEBuddy: [Metadata matching, extraction, renaming from files and downloading from the Internet](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/renaming-extracting-metadata-from-files-and-downloading-from-the-internet/69)

It should be either `SHOWNAME_IMDBID` or `SHOWNAME.SxxEyy.SUBTITLE`

Your filename seems to match the second pattern so it’s taking the subtitle as the IMDBID

> Title: Mission Impossible  
> SubTitle: tt0649283  
> Description:  
> Network:  
> Network Affiliate:  
> Parental Rating:  
> Media Credits:  
> Genres:  
> Season: 6  
> Episode: 15

Since there is already a subtitle present, MCEBuddy won’t overwrite it from the internet. In the next version of MCEBuddy we’ll give an option to _overwrite_ the metadata from the internet (e.g. TVDB, TMDB etc).

For now you should change your filename format to match either of the two formats above. If you want it to use the IMDBID then remove the SxxExx from the filename and it’ll download the details directly for that IMDBID.

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