Using Batch Rename in search results

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Creat
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Using Batch Rename in search results

Post by Creat »

Hello,

I'm not quite sure weather this is a bug or intentional, so I'm posting it in the tips & tricks section.

I sometimes want to rename all files by a specific name to a different name, where most of them are in different folders. I approached this by searching for the filename and tried to rename them. The only way I could achieve this was by using search and replace, but from the description it seems like batch rename should also allow for this, or do I misunderstand this?
Concrete example: I wanted to rename all "Cover.jpg" files in my music collection to "folder.jpg", but the preview from batch rename showed a list with appended numbers (like folder-01.jpg). Is this intentional? It seems to contradict the help text of the Batch Rename dialog, which implies to only use numbering if the file without number already exists...
Help Text excerpt from Batch Rename Dialog wrote:All examples are applied to Test.txt (dated 2008-Aug-25) on 2008-Oct-23.

Simple syntax:
New = New.txt (New-01.txt etc. ... if New.txt exists)

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Re: Using Batch Rename in search results

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Interesting, you are right. I would consider this a (mild) bug. Will care for it...

EDIT: Fixed! 8)

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Re: Using Batch Rename in search results

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thanks a bunch, already grabbed it :)

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Re: Using Batch Rename in search results

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Creat wrote:thanks a bunch, already grabbed it :)
Acc. to my notes it's not yet uploaded. :P

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Re: Using Batch Rename in search results

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lol... I didn't check the version changes, just grabbed the latest beta :wink:
Took two days or so till I needed that feature again (by then I had updated again) so I never even noticed :D

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:D So I assume it works as expected now?

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Re: Using Batch Rename in search results

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Yea it does, thank you very much :)

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