From 8c0775e9412082ab427bb93cf40ecca6ce83c492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shadowghost <Ghost_of_Stone@web.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:19:52 +0200
Subject: Bind the folder name an item-by-name entity resolves to

---
 MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/Genre.cs | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/Genre.cs')

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/Genre.cs b/MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/Genre.cs
index 6ec78a270e..ef8acaef92 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/Genre.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/Genre.cs
@@ -83,10 +83,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities
 
         public static string GetPath(string name, bool normalizeName)
         {
-            // Trim the period at the end because windows will have a hard time with that
-            var validName = normalizeName ?
-                FileSystem.GetValidFilename(name).Trim().TrimEnd('.') :
-                name;
+            var validName = normalizeName ? GetItemByNameFolderName(name) : name;
 
             return System.IO.Path.Combine(ConfigurationManager.ApplicationPaths.GenrePath, validName);
         }
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