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rchbn
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: Prepend date to fold by date of file in folder |
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I don't know if this can be done but here is what I have. 200+ folders of pictures named by what is in the folder. Flowers etc. What I would like to do is prepend the date in astrological order so I can sort by date.
What I would like is 20080612 Flowers as an example of one of the dates of the file that would be in that folder.
I did a search of the fourms and didn't find anything like this.
Thanks for any help, Rich |
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admin Site Admin
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 448 Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:05 am Post subject: |
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Hi Rich,
You just need ot use 2 of the predefined renaming commands. Set up the following in the Custom Renaming Creator (don't include the single quotes when you copy and paste):
Row: 1
Search:
Replace: '*Insert Folder before*Prefix*'
Row: 2
Search:
Replace: '*Insert File Properties before*Prefix*'
Before pressing the 'Scan' button, you need to go into the Options window to modify the 'Parent Folder Name Insertion' parameters (to configure the separator string) and 'Date Formatter' parameters (to configure the format of the date).
Let me know if you need any more info.
Peter. |
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rchbn
Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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admin wrote: | Hi Rich,
You just need ot use 2 of the predefined renaming commands. Set up the following in the Custom Renaming Creator (don't include the single quotes when you copy and paste):
Row: 1
Search:
Replace: '*Insert Folder before*Prefix*'
Row: 2
Search:
Replace: '*Insert File Properties before*Prefix*'
Before pressing the 'Scan' button, you need to go into the Options window to modify the 'Parent Folder Name Insertion' parameters (to configure the separator string) and 'Date Formatter' parameters (to configure the format of the date).
Let me know if you need any more info.
Peter. |
OK I did all that and I get an error saying error: The Python.......Row 1 is Invalid. Specific error detected is: "nothing to repeat"
Let me know how to proceed.
Rich |
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admin Site Admin
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 448 Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Rich,
Something must have gone wrong with the copy/paste .. maybe you don't have the text in the correct columns.
Try this:
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With the mouse copy the entire reply I sent with the search/replace data.
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Go to the PFrank main window and select it with the mouse. Clear the customer renaming creator list.
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Type ctrl-F2
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this should result in the search/replace commands being inserted at the top of the list. This ctrl-F2 feature was developed to simplify insertion of custom renaming data from email or forum postings.
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now press the scan. there should be no errors.
You will likely have to modify the insert parent folder and date formatter options as outlined before.
Hope this helps!
Peter. |
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rchbn
Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 5
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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admin wrote: | Hi Rich,
Something must have gone wrong with the copy/paste .. maybe you don't have the text in the correct columns.
Try this:
1)
With the mouse copy the entire reply I sent with the search/replace data.
2)
Go to the PFrank main window and select it with the mouse. Clear the customer renaming creator list.
3)
Type ctrl-F2
4)
this should result in the search/replace commands being inserted at the top of the list. This ctrl-F2 feature was developed to simplify insertion of custom renaming data from email or forum postings.
5)
now press the scan. there should be no errors.
You will likely have to modify the insert parent folder and date formatter options as outlined before.
Hope this helps!
Peter. |
OK that worked better, yes I did have things in the wrong column. But now it just wants to change the names to the last modified date of the folder it isn't looking at the file date inside the folder to prepend that date to the folder name.
Thanks for all your help, Rich |
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rchbn
Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 5
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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rchbn wrote: | admin wrote: | Hi Rich,
Something must have gone wrong with the copy/paste .. maybe you don't have the text in the correct columns.
Try this:
1)
With the mouse copy the entire reply I sent with the search/replace data.
2)
Go to the PFrank main window and select it with the mouse. Clear the customer renaming creator list.
3)
Type ctrl-F2
4)
this should result in the search/replace commands being inserted at the top of the list. This ctrl-F2 feature was developed to simplify insertion of custom renaming data from email or forum postings.
5)
now press the scan. there should be no errors.
You will likely have to modify the insert parent folder and date formatter options as outlined before.
Hope this helps!
Peter. |
OK that worked better, yes I did have things in the wrong column. But now it just wants to change the names to the last modified date of the folder it isn't looking at the file date inside the folder to prepend that date to the folder name.
Thanks for all your help, Rich |
OK I'm getting closer as I found in view options what to look for and changed it to %lastmodifieddate% but it still doesn't use the information from the file it seems to be seeing when the folder was moved as we just upgraded the server that all these files are on. One other thing the IT guys compressed the files and I'm thinking that this may have something to do with it as well?
Thanks again for all the help, Rich |
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rchbn
Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 5
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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rchbn wrote: | rchbn wrote: | admin wrote: | Hi Rich,
Something must have gone wrong with the copy/paste .. maybe you don't have the text in the correct columns.
Try this:
1)
With the mouse copy the entire reply I sent with the search/replace data.
2)
Go to the PFrank main window and select it with the mouse. Clear the customer renaming creator list.
3)
Type ctrl-F2
4)
this should result in the search/replace commands being inserted at the top of the list. This ctrl-F2 feature was developed to simplify insertion of custom renaming data from email or forum postings.
5)
now press the scan. there should be no errors.
You will likely have to modify the insert parent folder and date formatter options as outlined before.
Hope this helps!
Peter. |
OK that worked better, yes I did have things in the wrong column. But now it just wants to change the names to the last modified date of the folder it isn't looking at the file date inside the folder to prepend that date to the folder name.
Thanks for all your help, Rich |
OK I'm getting closer as I found in view options what to look for and changed it to %lastmodifieddate% but it still doesn't use the information from the file it seems to be seeing when the folder was moved as we just upgraded the server that all these files are on. One other thing the IT guys compressed the files and I'm thinking that this may have something to do with it as well?
Thanks again for all the help, Rich |
OK I copied all the files and folders to my computer and the program isn't using the files date it's using when the files were last moved or copied as the files took about 10 minutes to copy over I see the date it's using and minutes in the other columns so it really isn't using the right thing it's using last moved/accessed and note the creation date. I tried to use that in the "Files Properties Insertion" as "DateTimeOriginal% but it would use that in the file properties insertion line so I'm stuck but so close!!
Rich |
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admin Site Admin
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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If you are trying to use the %DateTimeOriginal% then you need to use the image insertion command:
*Insert Image Information before*Prefix*
Put that command in the replace column just like the others. Make sure the image insertion options are set up to use the %DateTimeOriginal%.
I can't explain why the file properties insertion did not work. If the files were compressed on the other computer then that shouldn't make any difference. Any dates inserted for file properties should corrrespond exactly to what you see in the file property date/time columns of the preview page (ie. last modified or creation date depending on which file property insertion options you set up).
If you are still having problems then please copy all the information from the Summary panel of the main window and post it in the next reply.
Thanks,
Peter. |
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