Odd file organization behavior

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Odd file organization behavior

Postby eaglclaws » 02 Sep 2016 17:00

Hello everyone, I'm currently using VLC ios on ios 9.3.2 on an iPhone 6 plus. I recently uploaded a few video files named very similarly, for example : "foo (bar) - (Y)". (Y being a number) After uploading every file name changes to "foo (bar) - (Z)". (Z being the greatest Y value). Then after a few minutes, these files get grouped as a tv show, and added to a folder. Here's the catch: apparently the app sees the identically named files as one file and just adds one random file among the list and omits the rest. I would upload a screen shot, but I cleared my library to try again tomorrow. Any insight on why this is occurring? Thank you.

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Re: Odd file organization behavior

Postby fkuehne » 12 Sep 2016 16:46

Ouch. Can you give more exact details on the file name. Looks like our pattern matching is inaccurate for your use case.
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Re: Odd file organization behavior

Postby eaglclaws » 15 Sep 2016 12:01

Of course. To elaborate, I added a few episodes of classic doctor who, and the episodes were sorted by serial. So for example "An Unearthly Child" would be formatted "Doctor Who S01E01 - An Unearthly Child (x)" where "x" would mean which part it was (i.e for part one the full filename would be "Doctor Who S01E01 - An Unearthly Child - (1)") I realize this a very odd way to name these, and I'll understand if the only solution is to change them. Thanks for the reply!


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