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Last post Author Topic: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)  (Read 97441 times)

Curt

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Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)
« Reply #100 on: April 08, 2008, 04:30 PM »
- whip gentle, please!  ;)

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Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)
« Reply #101 on: April 08, 2008, 11:36 PM »
@zridling: It's a shame you do not search the forum before posting  :down:
Is it really a "shame?" I search when posting new topics many times, but not for in-topic posts. I start with 'most recent posts' and work my way from there, otherwise, I'd never have time to do anything but search given the size of DonationCoder.com now.

But hey, thanks for keeping up with Flexible Renamer. I'd given up on it, and it's design is fantastic.

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Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)
« Reply #102 on: April 09, 2008, 10:27 AM »
FYI
Denis thinks about stopping developing his apps, including ReNamer.  :(
Please say him an last "Thank You Denis"  :Thmbsup:  ==> I may not be able to develop and support these tools any longer... read full post.

Thankfully, after the responses, he opted for the right path: Development will continue! :)

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Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)
« Reply #103 on: April 22, 2008, 01:36 PM »
Denis is back ==> The not easy story of the development, and the new way of things ==> http://den4b.com/for...viewtopic.php?id=438


And he is sedulous again:

New Beta after full release 5.25 from 8 Apr 2008...

Beta from 22 Apr 2008 ==> http://www.den4b.com...c.php?pid=1974#p1974
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Just to update:
The experimental version of ReNamer is ready, where Filters settings can be saved and loaded with individual Presets.
Both of these have been implemented and they DO require some testing:
* Added ability to save Filter Settings together with a Preset;
* Added split panel in status bar to display current preset and modification sign;
Tell me how it goes, ok?

* Integrated dEXIF libraries to parse EXIF tags (works on problematic JPEG files);
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Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)
« Reply #104 on: April 30, 2008, 07:39 PM »
Seems I always keep finding new software........so what.  Got a new file renamer for all of you
It's at or <a href="http://www.cylog.org...ities/wildrename.jsp">Wild Re-namer</a>

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Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)
« Reply #105 on: April 30, 2008, 08:37 PM »
@surftwo

It's called WildRename. gHacks wrote a small review just yesterday.

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I've been trying to download the file... impossible.  :huh:

PhilB66

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I've been trying to download the file... impossible.  :huh:

The Website is down. Even Google Cache version doesn't load.

2008-05-02_084636.jpg


PhilB66

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There you go Armando....http://www.cylog.co....ities/wildrename.jsp

See this blog post for Website migration details.


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WildRename looks pretty good.  Anyone using it yet?

Thanks!

Jim

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Both http://www.cylog.org/ and http://www.cylog.co.uk/ are up and running. Still takes a long minute to load but it's working.

Looks like a powerful rename tool with simulation mode and undo option. All files and settings are saved in the application folder  :up:.

PhilB66

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Ah, no option for retaining file attributes, creation date, etc.

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thanks!  :)

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Denis is back ==> The not easy story of the development, and the new way of things ==> http://den4b.com/for...viewtopic.php?id=438


And he is sedulous again:

New Beta after full release 5.25 from 8 Apr 2008...

Beta from 22 Apr 2008 ==> http://www.den4b.com...c.php?pid=1974#p1974
----------------------------
Just to update:
The experimental version of ReNamer is ready, where Filters settings can be saved and loaded with individual Presets.
Both of these have been implemented and they DO require some testing:
* Added ability to save Filter Settings together with a Preset;
* Added split panel in status bar to display current preset and modification sign;
Tell me how it goes, ok?

* Integrated dEXIF libraries to parse EXIF tags (works on problematic JPEG files);
----------------------------

Just wanted to say that I've started to use Renamer more than BRU and Flash Renamer. I really love the ability to saving different batches of rules. Very convenient -- and individual rules can be turned on/off. Haven't found a renamer that does it as well.  :up:


PS : One thing that could be useful would be a feature allowing to anotate some rules and batches to rapidly see what they do -- especially convenient when working with loooonnng regex. I might bring the suggestion directly to the developer.

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PS : One thing that could be useful would be a feature allowing to anotate some rules and batches to rapidly see what they do
-- especially convenient when working with loooonnng regex. I might bring the suggestion directly to the developer.

>  I might bring the suggestion directly to the developer.
Do this please ;-)


> working with loooonnng regex.
FYI, ReNamers RegEx engine supports (?#my comments) 

Therefore, many modern regex flavors allow you to insert comments into regexes.
The syntax is (?#comment) where "comment" can be whatever you want,
as long as it does not contain a closing round bracket.
The regex engine ignores everything after the (?# until the first closing round bracket.
http://www.regular-e...s.info/comments.html

f.ex.  \d*(?#find an digit, null or more)
Try it out and tell us how it works.

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And i found out "Free-Spacing Regular Expressions" is supported too
In free-spacing mode, whitespace between regular expression tokens is ignored.
Whitespace includes spaces, tabs and line breaks.
Note that only whitespace between tokens is ignored.
E.g. a b c is the same as abc in free-spacing mode,
http://www.regular-e...nfo/freespacing.html

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For comments on saving presets...
you could add an PascalScript-RULE for your comments only. (without any script, just comment only

You have to comment-out this comments.
You can use either of these commenting styles:
{ comments }
// comments
(* comments *)


HTH?  ;)

Armando

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Hey, AbteriX, thanks a lot!

FYI, ReNamers RegEx engine supports (?#my comments) 

Yes. (I'm still a beginner at regex, but I should've thought about that...   :-[ )
It works well! Of course, it's not as clean looking as a special comment section, but it's not that important.


And i found out "Free-Spacing Regular Expressions" is supported too
In free-spacing mode, whitespace between regular expression tokens is ignored.
Whitespace includes spaces, tabs and line breaks.
Note that only whitespace between tokens is ignored.
E.g. a b c is the same as abc in free-spacing mode,
http://www.regular-e...nfo/freespacing.html

Good to know!

For comments on saving presets...
you could add an PascalScript-RULE for your comments only. (without any script, just comment only

You have to comment-out this comments.
You can use either of these commenting styles:
{ comments }
// comments
(* comments *)

Good option too, I'll try it.

The way I actually  inserted comments in between groups of rules is simply using a regex rule and write my comments there (a long sentence/comment will never match with anything, so it can be used as a comment)