[tumblr] metadata files saving with incorrect (different posts) filename

[Sey-81]

ran gallery-dl to download a bunch of tumblr posts together with the text and tags, I end up with metadata files that don´t match the filenames correctly to which posts data is actually written in them.
specifically, the first saved posts metadata is written into "metadata.txt", then any following posts have the metadata written into a file that has the name of the previous saved post, causing all the filenames to be offset by a post.

so metadata.txt would contain img1.png´s data, then img1.txt contains img2.png´s data, and so on. this happens when saving a whole gallery.
ideally I´d like each posts txt file to just match its post name.

not the main issue at hand, but another oddity that I´ve noticed with metadata.txt is that if I do something like
gallery-dl (URL of single post) (URL of another single post)

both posts images are saved, but the metadata of only the second one.
doing it separately

-gallery-dl (URL of single post)
-gallery-dl (URL of another single post)

results the same so it seems the second one in this case overwrites the first posts metadata, when ideally I´d expect them to have separate .txt files with the filenames of their respective saved posts.

this is my config file

{
    "extractor": {
        "tumblr": {
            "api-key": "-",
            "api-secret": "-",
            "fallback-retries": 9,
            "metadata": true,
            "ratelimit": "wait",
            "postprocessors":[{
                "directory": "posts",
                "name": "metadata",
                "event": "post",
                "mode": "custom",
                "format": "content: \n{text} \n{caption} \n{summary} \n{tags} \n \nURL: https://tumblr.com/{blog_name}/{id}"
            }],
            "filename": "{blog_name}-{date:%Y%m%d}-{id}_{num:>02}-{summary}.{extension}",
            "directory": { 
                "": ["{category}","{blog_name}"]
            }
        }
    }
}

[Hrxn]

so metadata.txt would contain img1.png´s data, then img1.txt contains img2.png´s data, and so on. this happens when saving a whole gallery. ideally I´d like each posts txt file to just match its post name.

not the main issue at hand, but another oddity that I´ve noticed with metadata.txt is that if I do something like gallery-dl (URL of single post) (URL of another single post)

both posts images are saved, but the metadata of only the second one. doing it separately

-gallery-dl (URL of single post) -gallery-dl (URL of another single post)

results the same so it seems the second one in this case overwrites the first posts metadata, when ideally I´d expect them to have separate .txt files with the filenames of their respective saved posts.

You also need to set metadata.filename for this. With a filename string including their post ID.
You're aiming for 1 post (on tumblr's side), 1 one metadata file, right?

[Sey-81]

You also need to set metadata.filename for this. With a filename string including their post ID. You're aiming for 1 post (on tumblr's side), 1 one metadata file, right?

thank you, this helps a lot. and yes Im trying to match the text files filenames with the images filenames (besides the .txt extension of course). so that I´d have image1.png and image1.png.txt, image2.png and image2.text, and so on

{
    "extractor": {
        "tumblr": {
            "api-key": "-",
            "api-secret": "-",
            "fallback-retries": 9,
            "metadata": true,
            "ratelimit": "wait",
            "postprocessors":[{
                "directory": "posts",
                "name": "metadata",
                "filename": "{blog_name}-{date:%Y%m%d}-{id}_{num:>02}-{summary}.{extension}.txt",
                "event": "post",
                "mode": "custom",
                "format": "content: \n{text} \n{caption} \n{summary} \n{tags} \n \nURL: https://tumblr.com/{blog_name}/{id}"
            }],
            "filename": "{blog_name}-{date:%Y%m%d}-{id}_{num:>02}-{summary}.{extension}",
            "directory": { 
                "": ["{category}","{blog_name}"]
            }
        }
    }
}

this gives me almost the desired result, but with this the metadata files names always seem to read the extension of the images as "none"
so instead of img1.png being saved with img1.png.txt, I have img1.png and img1.none.txt
previously the metadata files were saved without having that "none" part issue. I would ideally like to include the images extension there instead instead of just cutting it out
from how I´m thinking a solution could be to somehow set it to just copy the images filenames for the metadata text files filenames, rather than this, if there´s any way of doing that.
(apologies for accidentally clicking close issue earlier- misclick)

[Hrxn]

Edit

Spoke to soon, you were already doing what I suggested first.

Yeah, the metadata.filename, i.e. and the "regular" filename output option
must match if you are going for something like "image1.png and image1.png.txt, image2.png and image2.png.txt, and so on"

Although I'm not sure if this makes sense at all - the way Tumblr used to work, with one Post containing multiple images (like a small gallery), but the Post is still the same, and therefore the metadata is also always the same (unless Tumblr has changed something in the meantime, I can't tell).

You're already using "event": "post" in the post-processor options, which should be correct here.

[mikf]

but with this the metadata files names always seem to read the extension of the images as "none"

There is no {extension} value available during "event": "post".
You'd have to use "event": "file" for that.