Recently finished setting up all the ARR services and I already had a lot of movies placed in nice folders for collections. Upon import into radarr it does not like this and fails to see most of them. I said fine and went into some of my collection folders to read the movies in there and then it complains about “Multiple root folders are missing for movie collections:” . So not only would I have to add root folders for each collection but then I have to go back through and rename each one of those to be what radarr wants them to be? Is there any way to automate this I looked through there wiki and didn’t see anything about collection making. Or do most people not put movies in actuall collection folders such as movies/Star Wars/Star Wars Episode One file
Thank you
If your movies are just in one big folder, there’s a Windows batch file out there called file2folder.bat
I used to have a copy, and it just takes the name of every file, creates a folder with the same name, and puts the file into it. Instead of something like c:\movies\batman.mp4 for example, you end up with c:\movies\batman\batman.mp4 which is something that Radarr can work with.
You’ll probably still need to do some tidying up and matching, but from what I remember, it’s a lot easier :)
Yeah, that .bat works really well. Makes pretty much any network access so much easier to set up and use.
I’ve found the file in one of my backups. It’s a Windows batch file, so you’d need to save it as a .bat file. The contents are:
@echo off
for %%a in (.) do (
md “%%~na” 2>nul
move “%%a” “%%~na”
)
but, I searched online first, and a lot of people now are saying to use FileBot instead, as it gives you more options:
https://www.filebot.net/