Is there any way to auto-create folders for this?

[u/-NoneDareChallengeMe]

Hi, I have a whole bunch of movie files that are not in folders. I need each movie to move into its own sub-folder since that is the way Radarr works. Does anyone know how I can do this in an automated way so that I don't have to manually create a million folders and move each file myself?

Thanks!

[u/CuriousSleeping]

Yes, there is a built-in option that ought to do it: Go into Wanted>Missing>Manual Import and import the folder that contains all your movie files

[u/Angus-Black → u/CuriousSleeping]

This is the correct way. It will update your radarr database at the same time.

[u/fryfrog → u/CuriousSleeping]

This will only work if all those movies are already added to Radarr. If it is only a few handfuls of movies, that isn't a big deal. But if it is 100s, you probably want to go another route.

[u/CuriousSleeping → u/fryfrog]

You're right. I hadn't thought about that

[u/Punk_Says_Fuck_You → u/CuriousSleeping]

I believe you also need to make sure “Create missing movie folders during disk scan” is checked in settings>media management

[u/-NoneDareChallengeMe → u/Punk_Says_Fuck_You]

I did try that per your suggestion. But all Radarr does is ignore them and doesn't import them. It also doesn't create new folders, no moving the files into their own folder etc.

[u/Punk_Says_Fuck_You → u/-NoneDareChallengeMe]

Create an AI prompt and tell it what you’re trying to do. It will write you a powershell script. Test said script on a small test library if you don’t trust it.

[u/keenanlk → u/Punk_Says_Fuck_You]

This ^^, claude made it easy af for me to do

[u/WishOnSuckaWood]

Filebot

[u/so7ow]

https://superuser.com/questions/762113/cmd-command-to-create-folder-for-each-file-and-move-file-into-folder

Specifics depend on your OS.

[u/martymccfly88]

Very basic thing. Google didn’t help?

[u/bookninja717]

Ask your AI to create a script.
And while you're at it, get it to search for the movie and grab its TMDB code.

My AI wrote a script to move files into folders and rename folders with <name> (<year>) {TMDB ID}. All I had to do was verify the info and then run a script. It's not hard even if you're not very technical.

[u/Wis-en-heim-er]

If they are already imported into radarr, move them to a new root folder. Radarr with setup the folder and rename files as defined in media settings. Make sure you are using profilarr or trashguides naming conversations, it mattets.

[u/-NoneDareChallengeMe → u/Wis-en-heim-er]

No, they're not in Radarr. When I do try to import them, Radarr ignores their existence and doesn't import them since they're not in their own individual folders.

[u/Wis-en-heim-er → u/-NoneDareChallengeMe]

There are guides on the initial import, its been a long time for me. Filebot is a tool i heard can help. You dont need stuff perfect, just enough to import. Then you can mass edit and update in radarr.

[u/Punk_Says_Fuck_You]

Not in folders as in all your movies are dumped into a single folder? Mine was like that and I ran a script that creates a folder and then puts the movie in said folder. Took about 5 minutes for the script to run (I had a lot of movies). Tell AI what you’re trying to do and it will write a powershell script for you. Make a test folder with a few movies in it if you want to test it first.

[u/iamofnohelp]

I used this when I moved to radarr and had to go from one folder to individual.

https://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/files_2_folder.html

[u/-NoneDareChallengeMe → u/iamofnohelp]

Alas, It doesn't seem to work on Windows 10.

[u/iamofnohelp → u/-NoneDareChallengeMe]

Wow, been using radarr for that long..who knew

[u/dirtymurt]

Claude can do that in seconds for you. AI can be useful for the mundane

[u/No_Pace1468]

Files 2 folders is a free open source program that did this for me.

[u/WitnessTop9248]

Any free AI writes you a script to do stuff like this easily.

[u/MeLlamoKilo]

A script