Omission of File Extension When Quick Renaming (Up/Down Arrows)
Posted: 08 Aug 2020 07:46
Hello,
New User who just purchased Pro as soon as I found out about the software this evening. There is an issue I have and maybe I'm missing the configuration setting or maybe it doesn't exist.
I'm carefully but quickly renaming photos in a unique way for a scientific dataset where I'm manually adding certain ID### to the end of each file name (and not in a patterned way that could be automated).
All my files are TIF and I already have the EXT column as 2nd column in Detail View where I'm doing my renaming. I hid file extensions under Tools > Customize List > Hid File Extensions
So I'm all good on that front. I also enabled serial renaming so after I F2 to rename an image I can add my bit of unique ID### to the photo; however, when I use the up/down arrows for serial rename it puts my cursor behind the *.TIF so I then have to waste 4 keystrokes to go back infront of the file extension to begin typing my custom ID###.
I looked around in the forums and found an old script that allows renaming of files (viewtopic.php?t=17386), saved as a User Cmd > Run Script with shortcut of Alt+Z, but it still seems a bit slower than if I could do the simple UP/DOWN serial renaming with the cursor going before the .TIF OR simply finding a way to omit the file extension when renaming.
Given that the only topic I found on this issue was 2018 I figured I'd dredge it back up.
Thanks
New User who just purchased Pro as soon as I found out about the software this evening. There is an issue I have and maybe I'm missing the configuration setting or maybe it doesn't exist.
I'm carefully but quickly renaming photos in a unique way for a scientific dataset where I'm manually adding certain ID### to the end of each file name (and not in a patterned way that could be automated).
All my files are TIF and I already have the EXT column as 2nd column in Detail View where I'm doing my renaming. I hid file extensions under Tools > Customize List > Hid File Extensions
So I'm all good on that front. I also enabled serial renaming so after I F2 to rename an image I can add my bit of unique ID### to the photo; however, when I use the up/down arrows for serial rename it puts my cursor behind the *.TIF so I then have to waste 4 keystrokes to go back infront of the file extension to begin typing my custom ID###.
I looked around in the forums and found an old script that allows renaming of files (viewtopic.php?t=17386), saved as a User Cmd > Run Script with shortcut of Alt+Z, but it still seems a bit slower than if I could do the simple UP/DOWN serial renaming with the cursor going before the .TIF OR simply finding a way to omit the file extension when renaming.
Given that the only topic I found on this issue was 2018 I figured I'd dredge it back up.
Thanks