wedgex@virtualbri every single time someone from the software department at two of the three houses I've worked at was sent to pick my brain about automating file ingestion, the first thing I'd say is “I need a place in here to manually adjust naming" and they'd look at me funny and I'd have to explain, again, that anything coming from outside the building and beyond our control was inevitably going to be a chaos you won't be able to cover in a universal expression or regex.
@virtualbri they never wanted to hear it, because they were ultimately being tasked with attempting to *replacing me*, but 15 or 20 minutes of providing specific examples would usually make them retreat back to their desk. Anyway, it's ironic because I currently have the ingestion system I've always wanted *and* we're simultaneously responsible for making deliverables to slot into someone else's automation flawlessly. :P