Renaming problem

[Trev]

I seem to be getting a lot of " ERROR Target already exists" errors in auto.log. It is to do with renaming files/titles./ Here is an extract from the log

2062    15/12/2015 20:05:11 -   DECRYPT: /media/My Video/EastEnders 15-12-15 1928
2061    15/12/2015 20:00:55 - autotrigger[3692]: Renaming /media/My Video/EastEnders_20151215_1928.ts to EastEnders 15-12-15 1928
2060    15/12/2015 04:26:51 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2059    15/12/2015 04:26:51 - Renaming /media/My Video/Fake Britain/Fake Britain 14-12-15 1929.ts to Fake Britain 14-12-15 1929
2058    15/12/2015 04:26:51 - Renaming /media/My Video/Fake Britain/Fake Britain_20151214_1929.ts to Fake Britain 14-12-15 1929
2057    15/12/2015 04:26:45 - Done... 1.21 GiB in 100.799 seconds - 12.27 MiB/s
2056    15/12/2015 04:26:44 -   Removing/binning old copy.
2055    15/12/2015 04:25:04 -   DLNA: http://127.0.0.1:9000/web/media/5182.TS
2054    15/12/2015 04:25:04 -   DECRYPT: /media/My Video/Fake Britain/Fake Britain_20151214_1929
2053    13/12/2015 22:05:15 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2052    13/12/2015 22:05:15 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt 06-12-15 2101.ts to The Hunt 06-12-15 2101
2051    13/12/2015 22:05:14 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2050    13/12/2015 22:05:14 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt 22-11-15 2101.ts to The Hunt 22-11-15 2101
2049    13/12/2015 22:05:14 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2048    13/12/2015 22:05:14 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt 15-11-15 2102.ts to The Hunt 15-11-15 2102
2047    13/12/2015 22:05:14 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2046    13/12/2015 22:05:14 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt 29-11-15 2100.ts to The Hunt 29-11-15 2100
2045    13/12/2015 22:05:14 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2044    13/12/2015 22:05:14 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt 13-12-15 2100.ts to The Hunt 13-12-15 2100
2043    13/12/2015 22:05:14 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2042    13/12/2015 22:05:14 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt 06-12-15 2101.ts to The Hunt 06-12-15 2101
2041    13/12/2015 22:05:13 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2040    13/12/2015 22:05:13 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt 22-11-15 2101.ts to The Hunt 22-11-15 2101
2039    13/12/2015 22:05:13 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2038    13/12/2015 22:05:13 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt 15-11-15 2102.ts to The Hunt 15-11-15 2102
2037    13/12/2015 22:05:13 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2036    13/12/2015 22:05:13 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt 29-11-15 2100.ts to The Hunt 29-11-15 2100
2035    13/12/2015 22:05:12 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt_20151213_2100.ts to The Hunt 13-12-15 2100
2034    13/12/2015 22:04:23 - autotrigger[6451]: Done... 2.8 GiB in 257.821 seconds - 11.13 MiB/s
2033    13/12/2015 22:04:22 - autotrigger[6451]:   Removing/binning old copy.
2032    13/12/2015 22:00:05 - autotrigger[6451]:   DLNA: http://192.168.0.11:9000/web/media/3798.TS
2031    13/12/2015 22:00:05 - autotrigger[6451]:   DECRYPT: /media/My Video/The Hunt/The Hunt_20151213_2100
2030    13/12/2015 21:06:34 - autotrigger[4577]: Renaming /media/My Video/Britain's Wildest Weather 2015_20151213_1930.ts to Britain's Wildest Weather 2015 13-12-15 1930
2029    13/12/2015 21:06:32 - autotrigger[4577]: Done... 3.94 GiB in 378.144 seconds - 10.66 MiB/s
2028    13/12/2015 21:06:31 - autotrigger[4577]:   Removing/binning old copy.
2027    13/12/2015 21:00:14 - autotrigger[4577]:   DLNA: http://127.0.0.1:9000/web/media/5175.TS
2026    13/12/2015 21:00:14 - autotrigger[4577]:   DECRYPT: /media/My Video/Britain's Wildest Weather 2015_20151213_1930
2025    12/12/2015 20:32:20 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2024    12/12/2015 20:32:20 - Renaming /media/My Video/The World's Weirdest Weather/The World's Weirdest Weather 05-12-15 2000.ts to The World's Weirdest Weather 05-12-15 2000
2023    12/12/2015 20:32:20 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2022    12/12/2015 20:32:20 - Renaming /media/My Video/The World's Weirdest Weather/The World's Weirdest Weather 12-12-15 1859.ts to The World's Weirdest Weather 12-12-15 1859
2021    12/12/2015 20:32:19 - ... ERROR Target already exists
2020    12/12/2015 20:32:19 - Renaming /media/My Video/The World's Weirdest Weather/The World's Weirdest Weather 05-12-15 2000.ts to The World's Weirdest Weather 05-12-15 2000
2019    12/12/2015 20:32:19 - Renaming /media/My Video/The World's Weirdest Weather/The World's Weirdest Weather_20151212_1859.ts to The World's Weirdest Weather 12-12-15 1859
2018    12/12/2015 20:32:17 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Chase_ Celebrity Special/The Chase_ Celebrity Special 12-12-15 1858.ts to The Chase  Celebrity Special 12-12-15 1858
2017    12/12/2015 20:32:17 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Chase_ Celebrity Special/The Chase_ Celebrity Special_20151212_1858.ts to The Chase_ Celebrity Special 12-12-15 1858
2016    12/12/2015 20:32:16 - Renaming /media/My Video/The Chase_ Celebrity Special/New_ The Chase_ Celebrity Special_20151212_1858.ts to The Chase_ Celebrity Special_20151212_1858
2015    12/12/2015 20:32:16 - Setting title for /media/My Video/The Chase_ Celebrity Special/New_ The Chase_ Celebrity Special_20151212_1858.ts to The Chase: Celebrity Special
2014    12/12/2015 20:32:09 - Done... 2.38 GiB in 221.342 seconds - 11 MiB/s
2013    12/12/2015 20:32:08 -   Removing/binning old copy.
2012    12/12/2015 20:28:27 -   DLNA: http://192.168.0.11:9000/web/media/3798.TS
2011    12/12/2015 20:28:27 -   DECRYPT: /media/My Video/The World's Weirdest Weather/The World's Weirdest Weather_20151212_1859

It's obviously something in my sweeper rules, but I can't see what's wrong. Will someone please have a look and tell be the error of my ways, to be punishes by 100 lashes and a public stoning.

# Remove Title New: prefix
global title New: action {settitle {%orig%replace,New: ,,}}
# Remove Filename New: prefix
global filename New_ action {renamefile {%orig%replace,New_ ,,}}
# File Datestamp DD MMM YY
global filename *20[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]_* action {renamefile {%title %2digitdate-%2digitmonth-%2digityear %hhmm}}
# Remove "_" in Filename
global filename _ action {renamefile {%orig%replace,_, ,}}

 

[Black Hole]

It's your third rule: it's trying to process files that it has already processed, so the resulting rename is to the same thing, but the OS takes this as an attempt to write a file with the same name as an existing file.

 

[Trev]

Well, that's what I had assumed but omitted commenting to that effect, but why is it trying to reprocess and why doesn't it try to reprocess rules 2 and 4 and raise a duplicate filename error for each?
If the file has already been processed, surely it won't meet the condition "*20[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]_*" and why does it not error on every file? And why does it appear to only error once on each file?

 

[Black Hole]

I don't know why, but the pattern matching seems to be picking up even the renamed file.

 

[Trev]

That was my thought too, but the pattern of the renamed file doesn't seem to match.

 

[hairy_mutley]

Looking at the top debug lines, 2058 is obviously rule 3, 2059 (& hence 2060) must be rule 4.
It looks like "global filename _" is (sometimes) matching when it shouldn't, then obviously the replace has nothing to change; hence the error.