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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Like FileSieve but folders have first two letters of file
« on: October 14, 2019, 07:30 AM »
That's great.  It's neater than keeping four AHK scripts on my desktop for one character, two characters, three characters and " - ".  Thank you.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Like FileSieve but folders have first two letters of file
« on: October 13, 2019, 05:23 AM »
Much appreciated.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Like FileSieve but folders have first two letters of file
« on: October 11, 2019, 02:32 PM »
I've found a script that works for that here:

https://autohotkey.c...file-in-a-directory/

I just had to change the extension to txt (I'm working with text files) and the regex to "\ - .*"

Sorry if it was bad etiquette to crowbar in a second request.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Like FileSieve but folders have first two letters of file
« on: October 10, 2019, 03:37 PM »
I figured out how to change the folder names to the first three characters or first single character but incorporating a regex or anything was beyond me from just looking at other examples.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Like FileSieve but folders have first two letters of file
« on: October 10, 2019, 02:27 PM »
If you wanted to name the folders after everything before " - ", e.g.,

Achebe, Chinua - There Was a Country
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Adiga, Aravind - Last Man in Tower
Adiga, Aravind - The White Tiger
Alger, Horatio - Bound to Rise
Alger, Horatio - Driven From Home

becoming

Achebe, Chinua > Achebe, Chinua - There Was a Country
Achebe, Chinua > Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Adiga, Aravind > Adiga, Aravind - Last Man in Tower
Adiga, Aravind > Adiga, Aravind - The White Tiger
Alger, Horatio > Alger, Horatio - Bound to Rise
Alger, Horatio > Alger, Horatio - Driven From Home

would that be a matter of modifying the above script or is it more complicated than that?

Thanks again.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Like FileSieve but folders have first two letters of file
« on: October 08, 2019, 04:50 AM »
It's working perfectly.  Thank you very much.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Like FileSieve but folders have first two letters of file
« on: October 07, 2019, 11:41 PM »
FileSieve is a program which puts files into folders named after the first letter of the filename, e.g.,

Abani, Chris - Song for Night
Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Caldwell, June - Room Little Darker

becomes

A > Abani, Chris - Song for Night
B > Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
C > Caldwell, June - Room Little Darker

but if say your S folder still has dozens/hundreds/thousands of files, it would be beneficial to be able to put them in folders named after the first two letters of the file, e.g.,

Sansom, William - The Body
Saravia, Alejandro - Red, Yellow and Green
satyal, rakesh - blue boy
Sloan, Holly Goldberg - Counting By 7s
Sloss, Aria Beth - Autobiography of Us
Slouka, Mark - Brewster
Swartwood, Robert - Hint Fiction
Sweeney, Kate - The O'Malley Legacy
Swift, Graham - Shuttlecock

becomes

SA > Sansom, William - The Body
SA > Saravia, Alejandro - Red, Yellow and Green
SA > Satyal, Rakesh - Blue Boy
SL > Sloan, Holly Goldberg - Counting By 7s
SL > Sloss, Aria Beth - Autobiography of Us
SL > Slouka, Mark - Brewster
SW > Swartwood, Robert - Hint Fiction
SW > Sweeney, Kate - The O'Malley Legacy
SW > Swift, Graham - Shuttlecock

FileSieve doesn't seem to do that and I've been unable to find any program which does.  So far I've been doing it by using Bulk Rename Utility to remove the first letter before using FileSieve then putting it back on with BRU after.

Many thanks.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: prefix folder name with number of files within folder
« on: May 26, 2019, 11:19 AM »
I downloaded the one you uploaded first and wrote a reply without seeing your edited post from six minutes previously.  I downloaded the second version and it works perfectly.  Thank you very much.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: prefix folder name with number of files within folder
« on: May 26, 2019, 11:08 AM »
Do you mean it requires Requires .Net 4.6.1 or later, or would I be better to roll my version back?  Thanks.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: prefix folder name with number of files within folder
« on: May 26, 2019, 11:01 AM »
I have .NET Framework 4.7.2

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: prefix folder name with number of files within folder
« on: May 26, 2019, 10:58 AM »
Oh, I just noticed "Requires .Net 4.6.1".  I'm just going to check if I have that.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: prefix folder name with number of files within folder
« on: May 26, 2019, 10:56 AM »
Thanks

I made a folder named "test" containing four textfiles and dropped it onto the exe and got this

"Checking: C:\Users\MyName\Downloads\test
4 found
Renaming test to 4 test
4 test already exists"

The folder remains unrenamed.

I would definitely appreciate one that can do multiple folders at once.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: prefix folder name with number of files within folder
« on: May 26, 2019, 10:05 AM »
e.g. Folder1 contains 16 files and Folder2 contains 8 files so their new names become "16 Folder1" and "8 Folder2".

I have been unable to find any existing programs which do this.

Thank you very much.

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