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Posted: **28 Jul 2008 08:29**

It's trivial but a valuable time saver for me and for anybody who likes to append modified dates to filenames.

Add this to your PFAs...

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

... and you have the command "Append modified date" in the POM for each folder and file.

Posted: **03 Aug 2008 05:07**

Ok, so I tried this out, and it works quite nicely, but it had me wondering:

Is there a way to access this via right-click on selected file that is obvious but not to me currently?

Yes, I do realize that I've stated before that I dislike right-clicks, but given that it's easiest way to access some extended options, while using the TB 'Open with" or Cntl+Alt+Enter isn't.

Posted: **03 Aug 2008 07:49**

j_c_hallgren wrote:Is there a way to access this via right-click on selected file that is obvious but not to me currently?

No, although it would be nice. But I see no easy way to trigger an alternate context menu, and I don't want to add it to the already large current context menu.

With Custom Mouse Effects (or so...) -- what I called "Action and Response" some days ago, there will be more possibilities...

Posted: **03 Aug 2008 09:03**

admin wrote:But I see no easy way to trigger an alternate context menu, and I don't want to add it to the already large current context menu.

Large context menu? Huh? I only see three XY items where I'd have expected to find it (To Clipboard/Rename Spc/Move-Copy-Bkup) so having one more at that level wouldn't be that much...but it could need to be labeled slightly different to totally distinguish it from OS's Open With, such as "Portable Open With.." although it would appear in the first group so the separator would somewhat identify it as XY related.

Posted: **03 Aug 2008 09:42**

j_c_hallgren wrote:
admin wrote:But I see no easy way to trigger an alternate context menu, and I don't want to add it to the already large current context menu.
Large context menu? Huh? I only see three XY items where I'd have expected to find it (To Clipboard/Rename Spc/Move-Copy-Bkup) so having one more at that level wouldn't be that much...but it could need to be labeled slightly different to totally distinguish it from OS's Open With, such as "Portable Open With.." although it would appear in the first group so the separator would somewhat identify it as XY related.

Yes, would work and make sense. However, for internal reasons this would be quite tough to program, so I say: maybe later.

Posted: **03 Aug 2008 12:52**

just to meet the two-fools-rule: i'd also benefit if the XY-Open-With is accessible via right click menu

though, it's no priority for me...

Posted: **03 Aug 2008 13:51**

Well, once we'll have onEvent scripting, or Custom Event Actions as it may now be officially called, we'll be able to put such features (as well as any other we like) on middle-click for example. We could even have a different menu depending on the file selected, the current location, etc

Another big plus of using our own ctxt menu like that, instead of item's ctxt menu : pure XY stuff, no need to call shell or any shell extension, you can win a few seconds easy as the menu pops up instantly!

Posted: **27 Sep 2008 05:01**

admin wrote:It's trivial but a valuable time saver for me and for anybody who likes to append modified dates to filenames.

Add this to your PFAs...
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|"Append modified date" \;*>::rename bat, *-<datem yyyymmdd>
... and you have the command "Append modified date" in the POM for each folder and file.

This renamed my file to 1. I should have checked first. Anyway, the new one which works is:

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

Posted: **27 Sep 2008 05:02**

serendipity wrote:
admin wrote:
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|"Append modified date" \;*>::rename bat, *-<datem yyyymmdd>
... and you have the command "Append modified date" in the POM for each folder and file.
This renamed my file to 1. I should have checked first. Anyway, the new one which works is:
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|"Append modified date" \;*>::rename bat, "*-<datem yyyymmdd>"

Posted: **27 Sep 2008 07:07**

serendipity wrote:
admin wrote:It's trivial but a valuable time saver for me and for anybody who likes to append modified dates to filenames.

Add this to your PFAs...
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|"Append modified date" \;*>::rename bat, *-<datem yyyymmdd>
... and you have the command "Append modified date" in the POM for each folder and file.
This renamed my file to 1. I should have checked first. Anyway, the new one which works is:
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|"Append modified date" \;*>::rename bat, "*-<datem yyyymmdd>"

Yes, thanks. "bat" is deprecated, so it should be:

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

or, since "b" is default:

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

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