blog: rename files with your text editor

[nikos]

here's the comment area for today's blog found at
http://www.zabkat.com/blog/05Apr09-free ... rename.htm

[fgagnon]

That is SOOOO cool !

Now, I only need to find out how to specify an alternate text editor to use.
(neither Notepad, nor Editor2 for this  :o )

[namsupo]

Hmm so your solution for mass renaming is to (effectively) rename each file manually?

Perhaps the choice of text editor is not the biggest decision to make in this situation  :roll:

[nikos]

as i said in the blog, this method is meant for hard cases, where there is little or no pattern that governs the mass rename. If you use a good text editor you can probably make things quicker using some search and replace command, possibly with regular expressions

fred you can just drag-drop the script file (as shown in the inactive pane of x2) to your editor of choise

ps i accidentally stumbled on this one from audacity blog recommending x2 mass renamer and its automatic counters

[temp6001]

I use AC Browser only for fast mass-renaming because it works superb,
can you not import this function?

[WimdeLange]

Does remind me of one thing I do with xplorer2 which is difficult in another way. I have a directory structure (based on date) with invoices in it. How do I check if there are no missing invoice numbers?

Simple. Select the top most directory, hit Shift Enter, Select all, use Ctrl-P and copy the data in a spreadsheet with some formulas ready (and sort somewhere in the process) Use coloring or filtering to find the gaps.

If I had not xplorer2 I had to write a rather complex program instead of using some simple formula's in a spreadsheet.