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Of course, there's an easy way around it : use single-quotes! Ah, thanks! That's what I was getting at when I said "escaping" - I'm new to XYplorer scripting, so I didn't know the syntax and terminology. (It's a pity everything implements its own scripting language - far too much for my a...

Specifically, if I define a UDC to run the script rename b,"<datem yyyy-mm-dd hh-nn-ss> *" and assign it to a key, I can just hit that key after the drop - the dropped files are still selected and the job's done. Ideally, I'd add a step to strip off any -01 -02 etc suffixes which may have...

Have you considered using the template to give the file as much data as possible and then using separate move or rename commands (as UDC or scripts) to format it as you desire? No, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks, it's not a bad option. Specifically, if I define a UDC to run the script rename b,&q...

Thanks. In the meantime, given that I can write an external program to toggle the setting fairly robustly, am I OK to change xyplorer.ini from an external program? In other words, will XYplorer pick up any changes that I make, or do I need to "notify" the program somehow that the ini file ...

I have 2 "standard" forms in which I need to save emails in my filesystem. Which one is to be used depends on the existing layout of the directory I'm dropping into. At the moment, I manually go to Configuration/Templates/Dropped Messages and make the change, but it would be nice to be abl...

Unfortunately, there aren't environment variables for all the various special folders (e.g. My Music, My Pictures, etc). But it helps for some, certainly.

Thanks,
Paul.

I'm sure this is a dumb question, but: How can I set a "Go to" location (in the address bar, or a Catalog entry, or whatever) for one of Windows' "Special Folders" (Desktop, Pictures, Downloads, etc)? Vista has a whole load more of these than XP used to, and I'm getting fed up of...

Would it be possible to add EXIF tags as variables (and maybe MP3 tags as well)? The problem with EXIF tags is that they are constantly changing as the various vendors of hardware make custom ones for their own use, and this can become a maintenance nightmare or similar...the base tags are pretty m...

serendipity wrote:But anything more advanced has to be dealt by advanced apps such as ExifTool (stand-alone)

That looks like it will suit my needs. Thanks for the pointer.
Paul.

I'd like to be able to get at the EXIF tags (specifically, date taken) on my photos for use in batch rename/move/copy jobs (specifically, to rename files into a folder structure with one folder for all photos taken on a particular date). My first instinct was that all I needed was for the date to be...

admin wrote:Note that the date is also found in the Modified Date of a dropped message. You can retrieve it for the current file using <datem ...> or using SC report(). Some scripting skills are needed here.

Ah! I hadn't noticed that. That will suit me fine! Thanks for saving me from VBScript
Paul

When your template generates <subject>_<date> files and you need <date>_<subject> files, then you'd simply need a RegExp rename that swaps the parts of the name. No need to grab the data again from the contents. Ah, I see what you're getting at. My problem's slightly worse - for the default, I use ...

Maybe the best way to go would be to create a rename job (UDC / Rename RegExp...) that converts your filenames to the wished standard after dropping. That's certainly possible (and may actually be better than something as specialized as per-directory templates) but I'd need to be able to get the em...

I have a number of directories where I store emails. I do this simply by dragging and dropping them from my email program. Most of the time, just using the subject as the file name is correct, so I have my template set to <subject>. But for certain directories, we have a different "standard&quo...

Ah! I hadn't thought about folder view settings this way round, I'd been thinking of them as a way of saving specific settings for a given folder (which is not what I wanted). That's exactly what I wanted - thanks a lot! Looking a bit more at folder view settings, I see that you can save a default a...