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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Organize files into folders based on flename wildcard parsing

« on: February 15, 2011, 05:02 PM »

One issue found during testing which was not reproducible other than on my own system was the case of only Deskop and Current User appearing in the Browse for Folder Dialogue box for add /edit entry. It was believed that it might be Win7-64.

Well discovered the cause/fix as I also found another until had started to encounter the same issue. elsewhere.  You can read about it yourselves at Browse For Folder -- Missing Computer,and Libraries

But in summary, there is a limit on the number of icons on the desktop. When you exceed the number say byebye Browse For Folder functionality.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Extended function for Files2Folder

« on: February 12, 2011, 07:30 AM »

Many thanks for the quick reply.

The structure is in many ways quite simple, and I can adjust some of it if needed as I go, such as moving each set files to source folder, which effectively elliminates the possibilities of collisions.

Once a batch has been processed, I can physically move the generated folders to a new location, before processing another set. They can then be moved on completion, and windows can handle the collisions for me, and i can the adjust the folder name if needed.

In the following examples i can put "myfolder" anywhere needed in the path i.e. drive:\\myfolder if it makes things easier.

Most of the images are either in the format

myfolder\image00001 - location.jpg
or
myfolder\location - image00001.jpg

There are a number where I incorporate date such as

myfolder\image00001 - location 15-02-2004.jpg
or
myfolder\2004-02-15 location - image00001.jpg
or
myfolder\location 15-02-2004 - image00001.jpg

In these cases i can see the extra "-" being a possible problem, but i can work around that as once they are in their sets, I have other tools I can utilise.

There are also a few files in the format

location - 15022004 - image00001.jpg

But i have means to easily remove the first "-" so reducing it to one of the previous variants.


Destination for each set would be
mydestinationfolder\location\

Though as we are only starting in

myfolder\

and there are no existing subfolders, unless there is a programming reason, I can see no reason why the destination can't just be

myfolder\location\

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Extended function for Files2Folder

« on: February 12, 2011, 05:15 AM »

Many thanks for the response. The description I gave was in the simplest form, as I can see other potential later. I am actually sorting pictures

The idea came from using Calibre and how it stores ebooks based on regular expressions. Unfortunately it puts each item into a subfolder of the group, rather than directly in the group, which would have meant i could have used Calibre to do the grouping.

The problem is selecting the images into sets. Most have one or other of the formats mentioned for the filenames, but there are multitudes of variants, and the list is continually growing. Automating the folderising would reduce the biggest manual part of the process to an insignificant number.

Once grouped, they can be placed in CBR format and loaded into calibre as sets or stored elsewhere.

So it does sound like what you have may work, I can always give it a try, maybe iron any bugs too if they exist

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Finished Programs / IDEA: Extended function for Files2Folder

« on: February 11, 2011, 08:27 AM »

Hello, hopefully in this my first post, I get things right.


First Files2Folder is a great utility

The thought I have which may be a new utility or enhancement of the existing.

I often encounter files in the following formats

first part - middle part - last part.extension
or
first part - last part.extension

It would be nice to be able to select a group of files and have the utility folderise by a defined segment, though to make it easier.

option 1
Anything before the first " - "

option 2
Anything after the last " - " (ignoring extension)

There may be other cases, but I suspect it would be more complex to handle.

When run the utility would create folders based on content for the defined option.

If a folder already exists, there is no need to create

Files are then added to the appropriate folder.

In case of duplicates, files are enumerated, or ignored, though in theory this should not happen from an existing folder, but may if further files are added for subsequent processing.


I am guessing there may already be something out there that does this, but I have yet to find it. And then probably nothing with the simplicity of Files2Folder

Thanks in advance