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perseid wrote:Hi, I have a bunch of PDF books that I want to batch rename according to their metadata info (for example "Title_Author_Year_Edition.pdf"). Can this be done with XYplorer? If so, how? Thanks

highend wrote:@serendipity

That script doesn't show any of the information the op wants to use (that's what I've tested first, before I proposed exiftool).

Really? On my PDFs i can see atleast title, author and year.

Access = 31.01.2012 19:56:12
Attrib = A
Attributes = A
Create = 31.01.2012 19:56:12
Directory = .eBooks
Name = AutoIt leicht gemacht.pdf
Owner = UK-DT-01\Highend
Size = 616648
Type = PDF File
Write = 31.01.2012 19:55:58

Title : AutoIt leicht gemacht
Author : Johannes Mitlmeier
Create Date : 2010:09:29 22:29:21+02:00
etc.

highend wrote:

Really? On my PDFs i can see atleast title, author and year.

Script (full output):

Access = 31.01.2012 19:56:12
Attrib = A
Attributes = A
Create = 31.01.2012 19:56:12
Directory = .eBooks
Name = AutoIt leicht gemacht.pdf
Owner = UK-DT-01\Highend
Size = 616648
Type = PDF File
Write = 31.01.2012 19:55:58

Wheras exiftool shows (ripped output):

Title : AutoIt leicht gemacht
Author : Johannes Mitlmeier
Create Date : 2010:09:29 22:29:21+02:00
etc.

There are some duplicate items but you should see author, title and date atleast.

Access = 31.01.2012 19:56:12
Attrib = A
Attributes = A
Create = 31.01.2012 19:56:12
Directory = .eBooks
Name = AutoIt leicht gemacht.pdf
Owner = UK-DT-01\Highend
Size = 616648
Type = PDF File
Write = 31.01.2012 19:55:58
#1 = 602 KB
#2 = PDF File
#3 = 31.01.2012 20:55
#4 = 31.01.2012 20:56
#5 = 31.01.2012 20:56
#6 = A
#9 = Dokument
#10 = UK-DT-01\Highend
#11 = Dokument
#19 = Nicht bewertet
#53 = UK-DT-01 (dieser Computer)
#155 = AutoIt leicht gemacht.pdf
#173 = Nein
#176 = .eBooks
#177 = D:\Users\Highend\Downloads\.eBooks
#178 = .eBooks (D:\Users\Highend\Downloads)
#180 = D:\Users\Highend\Downloads\.eBooks\AutoIt leicht gemacht.pdf
#182 = PDF File
#188 = Nicht aufgelöst
#269 = Nicht freigegeben

highend wrote:

There are some duplicate items but you should see author, title and date atleast.

Nope

Was just hoping that one need not have to go through 3rd party solutions when XY offers one.

serendipity wrote: Can you run the below script and see if you the information you need?
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 261#p67261

To run a script, copy paste code into Scripting>Run Script.

Let us know what info you see, based on that you can do batch rename.

serendipity wrote:OK, I realized i did not upload my v2 script. could you try this script? There are some duplicate items but you should see author, title and date atleast.

Properties-v2.xys

perseid wrote:Hi! First of all let me thank you all for your replies. I have no knowledge in writing scripts and I know the best path is to learn but I need to solve the issue at hand now and I appreciate your sending me the scripts. Also, I'm running Windows XP SP3 32bit (US-English).

But then the question is, what is the procedure to batch rename say 20 selected PDF's so that XYplorer extracts info from the script results window and renames files accordingly? (for example <Title>_<Author>.pdf)? Thanks

I'm sure they will provide the rest of the answer

	$SelectedItems = get("SelectedItemsPathNames", "|");

	foreach($Item, $SelectedItems, "|") {
		$Title = property("DocTitle", "$Item");
		$Author = property("DocAuthor", "$Item");
		$NewName = "$Title" . "_" . "$Author";
		rename b, "$NewName", p, "$Item";
	}

highend wrote:

I'm sure they will provide the rest of the answer

Really? *g*

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	$SelectedItems = get("SelectedItemsPathNames", "|");

	foreach($Item, $SelectedItems, "|") {
		$Title = property("DocTitle", "$Item");
		$Author = property("DocAuthor", "$Item");
		$NewName = "$Title" . "_" . "$Author";
		rename b, "$NewName", p, "$Item";
	}

This _should_ work but test it with a few copies of your files before.

highend wrote:

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	$SelectedItems = get("SelectedItemsPathNames", "|");

	foreach($Item, $SelectedItems, "|") {
		$Title = property("DocTitle", "$Item");
		$Author = property("DocAuthor", "$Item");
		$NewName = "$Title" . "_" . "$Author";
		rename b, "$NewName", p, "$Item";
	}

This _should_ work but test it with a few copies of your files before.