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Special rename of files with predefined formats of file meta data

Posted: 26 Feb 2018 20:47
by decker
Hello,

to track various file versions I use a naming scheme like "filename - YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM" where the date and time is the time stamp of the file.

May be it is of some help to have something like this at a finger tip.

Best

Thomas

Re: Special rename of files with predefined formats of file meta data

Posted: 27 Feb 2018 02:44
by RalphM
My favorite way for this is to create a Portable File Association (PFA) as marked in the following screenshot:
PicPick_297.jpg
You would need to adapt it to your liking by adding the time component to it.

Re: Special rename of files with predefined formats of file meta data

Posted: 27 Feb 2018 07:16
by jupe
for ease of copying..

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|"Append Modified Date n Time|:rename" \;*>::rename , '* - <datem yyyy-mm-dd hh.nn>';
colons aren't a suitable filename char, change the "datem" to "datec" if you wanted created date instead

Re: Special rename of files with predefined formats of file meta data

Posted: 27 Feb 2018 13:16
by admin
Note that this is built-into the OpenWith menu of the fresh installation:

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|"Append modified date to filename" \;*>::rename , '*-<datem yyyymmdd>'