[robweber]

wondering if anyone knows how to do this...

i have my movies in separate folders based on genres i decide (action, comedy, drama, family, sci-fi, war, horror). when i download a movie, i just move it to the folder i think it would belong. i have my xbmc homescreen link to J:\Movies as a favorite, so when you go into "Movies" on the homescreen, you see these 7 genre categories in folder view. this eliminates a ton of confusion for my wife and kids so they don't have to go through 40 genres just to find the movie they're looking for.

i have always just moved things around manually, but, i am now trying to automate my entire HTPC process so that my wife can operate it with as minimal tweaking on her part.

so is there a way that when you add a movie in couchpotato, to have the movie moved to my designated folder when complete? ie somehow tag it "action" when you add it to wanted list, then it's moved to J:\Movies\Action when the download is complete in sabnzbd

If you're looking to automate using SABnzbd and Couchpotato then why not remove the manual genre sorting altogether? While you may be used to getting to things in a certain way (basically manual file browsing it sounds like), why not let XBMC do its thing and scan all your media? In the movie nodes section you can start your search by a number of methods (including genre) and if you know what you're looking for you can even do a search.

I've seen an number of posts similar to yours over the years "I need to be able to manually sort xyz into these special folders...."; most of the time, no you don't. You're just used to doing it that way. Programs like Couchpotato and XBMC are built on the idea that it can categorize and display your media better than you can - and automatically too.

In order to get closer to what you're asking (since Couchpotato doesn't have these capabilities and the idea here is to automate) - why not create some smart playlists and link those on the home screen? These can be based on genre and will automatically display what you need. A more comprehensive option, if you are running a pre-Frodo build, would be to use the new library reorganization structure to create new nodes based on conditions you want. Here you can go to town and create some nodes based on conditions you want, and still not have to worry about the manual sorting. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=130437