$Q doesn't work

[elena4747]

hello everybody,
i'm new to this forum and i have been using the lite version of xplorer2 for about 2 weeks now. thanks for offering such a powerful tool for free

but today i encounted my first problem with xplorer2: i wanted to do a mass rename on subtitle files so that they have the same base name as their associated video files. to do that i activated dual pane mode, the left (inactive) pane showing the folder with the videos and the right (active) pane showing the subtitle folder. in the mass rename window i used the $Q token ($Q.$E) which should actually work fine but the preview shows this:

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1.srt --- Q_PATH.srt
2.srt --- Q_PATH.srt
...

ok, i thought this may be a display bug but when i finally hit rename only the first subtitle file gets renamed to "$Q.srt" although its name should be "videofile_01.srt". the other files don't get renamed at all.

--> what am i doing wrong that $Q doesn't work ($G doesn't work either)? according to the PDF manual i have done everything alright.

--> is there another easy way of achieving my goal to mass rename the subtitles according to their video base file names?

thanks!!!
elena

[nikos]

hi elena, i'm not sure what you're trying to do but mass rename won't work with $Q or $G, i think it doesn't deal with tokens from the inactive pane

$Q would work if instead of mass rename you created a batch file <ctrl+B> using the DOS ren command (eg ren $N $Qsomething) but $Q would always be fixed to the focused item in the inactive pane, i'm not sure if that's what you want

better try it in a small test case first

[elena4747]

hey nikos, thanks for you quick reply and sorry for my late answer. i'm busy taking my exams  :?

you were right, $Q works with the script wizard but not with the mass renamer. but now i've got a new problem:
i have 2 folders, each containing 3 files. in dual pane mode, i select all files, then i activate the pane where the files that are going to be renamed are located and then i press ctrl+b. i build my template and $Q works fine, but all files are going to have the same file name. $Q really only works on the first of many highlighted items. this makes my batch renaming impossible

maybe you have another idea how to achieve my goal? i'm gonna explain my file structure again:

i have 2 folders named "videos" and "subtitles". in the videos folder i have 22 ripped episodes from some DVDs of a TV series. the file name contains season+episode+tile.avi. the subtitlesfolder contains 22 ripped subtitles but only named as 1.srt 2.srt 3.srt ... i want the subtitles to have the same base file name ($B) as their corresponding video file so that ffdhow automatically recognizes the subtitles. i don't wanna install and use an extra renaming tool because i think xplorer2 can handle this problem, too.

thanks for further suggestions
elena