Better way dealing with changing tagged item path

[karimmaster101]

Hi,
I wish if there is a better way when it comes to change a path of tagged items.
Let's say that I decided to change the drive letter of external drive to a new one though I have tagged items assigned to the old letter.
Or I accidentally rename a folder via windows explorer.

I believe that there is a better way to make the job done instead of the current way. Something like a dialog window where you put the old path and the new one and make Xyplorer update the database automatically.

What do you think?

[highend]

Let's say that I decided to change the drive letter of external drive to a new one though I have tagged items assigned to the old letter.

Drive serials are an option for the tag database...

I believe that there is a better way to make the job done instead of the current way. Something like a dialog window where you put the old path and the new one and make Xyplorer update the database automatically.

Can be done via simple scripting (already)...

[karimmaster101]

Drive serials are an option for the tag database...

Sorry, I have missed this option

Can be done via simple scripting (already)...

Where I can find such a script?

[highend]

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    // Replace a drive letter in the tag.dat database with a new one
    $old = recase(trim(input("Enter the old drive letter..."), ":\", "R"), "U");
    $new = recase(trim(input("Enter the new drive letter..."), ":\", "R"), "U");
    $tags = readfile("<xydata>\tag.dat");
    writefile("<xydata>\tag.dat", regexreplace($tags, "^$old:\\", "$new:\"));
    #887;
    echo "Tag database modified!";

[karimmaster101]

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    // Replace a drive letter in the tag.dat database with a new one
    $old = recase(trim(input("Enter the old drive letter..."), ":\", "R"), "U");
    $new = recase(trim(input("Enter the new drive letter..."), ":\", "R"), "U");
    $tags = readfile("<xydata>\tag.dat");
    writefile("<xydata>\tag.dat", regexreplace($tags, "^$old:\\", "$new:\"));
    #887;
    echo "Tag database modified!";

What if the full path have been changed via windows explorer, like "D:\My files\here is my tag" become "D:\My tag is here"

[highend]

What if the full path have been changed via windows explorer, like "D:\My files\here is my tag" become "D:\My tag is here"

1. All entries in the tag.dat file are case-sensitive so please enter your values correctly!
E.g. you enter:
D:\my files\here is my tag
but the correct path name is
D:\My files\here is my tag
it would NOT work!

2. If you substitute paths, make sure you write them with a trailing backslash!
Let's say you have these entries in tag.dat
D:\Subfolder\123\pagefile.sys|0|some tag||||||
D:\Subfolder\123456\pagefile.sys|0|another tag||||||
and you want the first one to change to
E:\abc\pagefile.sys|0|some tag||||||

Then do NOT use
D:\Subfolder\123
E:\abc

but
D:\Subfolder\123\
E:\abc\

otherwise
D:\Subfolder\123456\pagefile.sys|0|another tag||||||
would change to
E:\abc456\pagefile.sys|0|another tag||||||

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    // Replace a path in the tag.dat database with a new one
    $old = input("Enter the old path...", "ATTENTION: This is case-sensitive!");
    $new = input("Enter the new path...", "ATTENTION: This is case-sensitive!");

    $regex = regexreplace($old, "([\\.+(){\[^$])", "\$1");
    $tags = readfile("<xydata>\tag.dat");
    writefile("<xydata>\tag.dat", regexreplace($tags, "^" . $regex, $new, 1));
    #887;
    echo "Tag database modified!";

[karimmaster101]

Really, I can't thank you enough.