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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: PEM: Portable Extension Manager v0.925

« Last post by Target on June 22, 2009, 08:13 PM »

well, you were right about the 'uh oh' bit...

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: PEM: Portable Extension Manager v0.925

« Last post by Target on June 22, 2009, 07:47 PM »

Watch for the next episode of this serial. Lowry eat your heart out

-cranioscopical (June 22, 2009, 06:59 PM)

this conversation is clearly peripheral to the thread!!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: PEM: Portable Extension Manager v0.925

« Last post by Target on June 22, 2009, 06:35 PM »

so much hub-bub over nothing...

those last ones looks suspiciously like transformers (are the stick people being assimilated?)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 22, 2009, 05:41 PM »

try this and let me know how it goes

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/*
A DonationCoder coding snack by Target
EpiFile - a TV show filer
dated  - Jun09

moves TV episode files to an appropriately named sub directory

requires a comma separated 'input file' containing the source and base target directories in the format
 'source dir,target dir' or 'd:\temp,d:\temp' (don't include the quotes).  Multiple sources can be
included by adding extra lines eg

d:\temp,d:\temp
d:\temp1,d:\temp
d:\temp2,d:\temp2

questions or feedback should be posted in the forum at -
     https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=18729.0
*/
#singleinstance
install, epifile.txt, epifile.txt

ifnotexist, epifile.txt
msgbox, INI not found - script will exit
   
Loop, read,epifile.txt
{
    stringsplit, MyPath, A_loopreadline,`,
    loop, %Mypath1%\*.*,0,0
    {
        if a_loopfilename contains .tp ;,000
        {
        }   
        else
        {
            newfold:= regexreplace(a_loopfilename,"-\d\d\d\d\-\d\d-\d\d-.*")
            newfold:= regexreplace(newfold,"- \(.*\)")
            newfold:= regexreplace(newfold," $")
           
            filecreatedir, %Mypath2%\%newfold%
            errorlevel:=0
               
            filemove, %a_loopfilefullpath%, %Mypath2%\%newfold%
            if errorlevel
            {
                if errlist
                    errlist.= "," . a_loopfilefullpath
                else
                    errlist:= a_loopfilefullpath
            }       
            errorlevel:=0
        }
    }
}
fileappend, %mypath1%, %A_YYYY%%a_mm%%A_dd%.error

script will move anything that doesn't contain .TP (this is configurable)

I haven't done anything about locked/in use files - logically this seems more to me an issue of timing.  

Personally I would probably run something like this before the conversion stage.  This would clear out the converted files, and avoid the in use issue completely

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: PEM: Portable Extension Manager v0.925

« Last post by Target on June 22, 2009, 05:26 PM »

USB stick people??

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by Target on June 22, 2009, 12:59 AM »

web pages that don't print, ie you get nothing at all, or maybe the top most frame - GAAAAAGH!!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 21, 2009, 11:37 PM »

so we're only moving files that don't contain 'TP'?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 21, 2009, 10:22 PM »

cool, many thanks

this might sound like a stupid question, but what i know about video isn't worth repeating, so just to confirm there could be files associated with the converted AVI's, eg XXX.AVI.XXX, XXX.AVI.YYY, etc 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 21, 2009, 09:02 PM »

I'm still looking at this but I need a bit more info on what it is you're trying to do

From what you've said so far it sounds like you're -

• downloading TV shows (as a set of files)
• Converting each set of files to a corresponding AVI file
• Moving the final (AVI) file to an appropriately named subfolder
• deleting the original sets of files (?)

the last step (above) is an assumption on my part.

is this a fair précis of what you're doing?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 19, 2009, 12:16 AM »

is there any way to just take the name till you get to the first "-" and ignore the rest?  Would seem to be easier to do that.

-famewolf (June 18, 2009, 11:23 PM)

Keep in mind that that logic won't work for one of your examples:  A-Team

-skwire (June 19, 2009, 12:04 AM)

Ouch...your absolutely right.

-famewolf (June 19, 2009, 12:11 AM)

I got that, but - ( is perfectly acceptable

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 18, 2009, 11:58 PM »

looks like there are a number of issues here...

does the conversion process affect all the files, and are all the files required after the conversion?

if you're converting to avi, I suspect you will only need/want the avi files moved (and the balance deleted?)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 18, 2009, 11:37 PM »

I can deal with the naming convention, though i'll have to think about the 'in use' problem a bit more

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is best program to create a DVD from any video file?

« Last post by Target on June 18, 2009, 11:34 PM »

DeVeDe is a nice program (I reviewed it in the mini-reviews section sometime ago) - it's dead simple to use, and you get a nice result at the other end. 

i did quite a bit of further testing and in my case the final video quality didn't end up being very good so I reverted to DVD flick (good quality, but no menus ).

This could have been because of the source files I was using (I had more than the program could handle, so I had to kludge them together), or because the app (apparently) converts the source into a common format before encoding (too many conversions), or simply because i didn't know what I was doing... 

This isn't to say that DeVeDe isn't a good tool (it is), or that it won't work for you (only one way to find out  ), only that ultimately it fell short for me

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 18, 2009, 11:18 PM »

Instead of creating a folder of the show name and copying all episodes to that folder it's creating a folder with BOTH the show name and the episode name...

the problem here is that the naming convention is inconsistent which makes it almost impossible to work out what the correct title is

Where a title includes the episode title will it always be in brackets, and in the format you described (ie NAME - (EPISODE) - XXXX)?

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Living Room / Re: Getting spam with my friends email address in the subject line

« Last post by Target on June 17, 2009, 11:20 PM »

That's easy, have a look at any PC running Windows - OE, (and probably Outlook), and Thunderbird, (IIRC, it's been awhile since I last installed let alone configured it), both default to HTML email and replying to email in the format it was sent.

I don't know about any other email clients but since you're talking about probably the most used one, (OE), it comes back to being "people don't know any better."

They see the pretty emails they can send but they don't see all the junk that's sent to do it, neither are they aware of the risk involved in receiving the damn things.

-4wd (June 17, 2009, 10:44 PM)

There's some truth in what you say, but it doesn't answer the question - why does the format persist?

Given that HTML mail is such a well known vector for security breaches it's kind of hard to understand why nobody is making an effort promote a better alternative (rich text?).  Outlook (not express) already includes RTF mail, but it's not as 'mainstream' as others, and it's pointless if the people your sending to can't (or don't/won't) use that format   

The reason that people 'don't know any better' is because they're not being offered an alternative.  And if an alternative exists, it's obvious advantages are not beng promoted

Or could it be that it's in the best interests of the (AV) industry to perpetuate this format?

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Living Room / Re: Getting spam with my friends email address in the subject line

« Last post by Target on June 17, 2009, 10:31 PM »

it's old but still valid - there is no reason to send HTML in an email.

-4wd (June 17, 2009, 04:17 PM)

is anyone aware of a reason why HTML mail persists?

wouldn't some sort of rich text format be a far better alternative?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 16, 2009, 01:41 AM »

I have no experience with the command line options - I've never needed it so I've never had to learn (but I'll be looking into it now!)

the code you posted probably was close, it just didn't look quite right to me...

There really isn't need for source/target since the new folders should always be created under the original dir

that was my original assumption - but who knows what other people do (or why!)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 16, 2009, 12:47 AM »

not sure about the command line part (though I'm pretty sure your posted code isn't correct)

how about this then

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#singleinstance

ifnotexist, showme.txt
msgbox, input file not found - script will exit

Loop, read,ShowMe.txt
{
    stringsplit, MyPath, A_loopreadline,`,
    loop, %Mypath1%\*.*,0,0
    {
        RegExMatch(a_loopfilename, "P)^(.*)-\d\d\d\d",TmpVar)
        if TmpVar
        {
            NewFold:= substr(a_loopfilename,1,tmpvar-5)
            filecreatedir, %Mypath2%\%newfold%
            errorlevel:=0

            filemove, %a_loopfilefullpath%, %Mypath2%\%newfold%
            if errorlevel
                fileappend, %a_loopfilefullpath%, ErrorLog_%A_YYYY%%a_mm%%A_dd%

            errorlevel:=0
            tmpvar:=0
        }
    }
}

replaces the INI file with a text file (ie ShowMe.txt) listing the matching source and target folders in the format

source folder 1,target folder 1
source folder 2,target folder 2
source folder 3,target folder 3
source folder 4,target folder 4
source folder 5,target folder 5

Script will loop through the matching pairs - same process, but it will handle multiple directories from a single calling.  any missed files will be logged to a file called ErrorLog_YYYYMMDD (a plain text file)

note that the text file needs to be in the same folder as the script/exe, and as before, if it's not found it will exit

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 15, 2009, 11:57 PM »

sorry, AHK is required to run the script, but the script can be compiled into a stand alone (attached) if you like

if you use the installer the script can go anywhere as the installation process sets up the associations

Hadn't considered multiple sources and/or targets - how many do you have?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to create subfolders and move files for list of shows BY name.

« Last post by Target on June 15, 2009, 11:25 PM »

here's a simple AHK script that does what you're looking for

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#singleinstance

ifnotexist, showme.ini
msgbox, INI not found - script will exit

iniread, SPath, ShowMe.ini, Paths, source
iniread, TPath, ShowMe.ini, Paths, target

loop, %spath%\*.*,0,0
{
    RegExMatch(a_loopfilename, "P)^(.*)-\d\d\d\d",TmpVar)
    if TmpVar
    {
        NewFold:= substr(a_loopfilename,1,tmpvar-5)
        filecreatedir, %tpath%\%newfold%
        filemove, %a_loopfilefullpath%, %tpath%\%newfold%
        tmpvar:=0
    }
}

it doesn't accept command line parameters (I just knocked this up in my lunch hour) so source and output directories are in an ini file in the format

[PATHS]
Source = d:\temp
Target = d:\temp

if the ini file doesn't exist the script will exit

(All credit to Mouser for the RegEx tip, else I wouldn't have worked this out  )

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Coding Snacks / Re: Request: Small App / Code to Easily Attach Program A to Program B (Tool-bar)

« Last post by Target on June 10, 2009, 02:04 AM »

this may not be quite what you're looking for but it might go someway towards what you seem to be asking for - Barnacle

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Get keystroke value

« Last post by Target on June 08, 2009, 10:45 PM »

syntax in this case would be

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#persistent

LWin & F::^F1

you could change this to

[Select]

#persistent

#F::^F1

which removes the dependency on the left win key only

have a read of the hotkeys, Remapping Keys and buttons, & keylist sections of the help file, and don't be afraid to ask for help if you need it

EDIT - as you've already tried the above can you try running the script uncompiled and let us know what happens

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General Software Discussion / Re: i need an autorun timer?! err ... something like that

« Last post by Target on June 04, 2009, 10:55 PM »

you could try StartupDelay

I've never used it so i can't vouch for it, but it may do what you need

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to duplicate a file in the same folder?

« Last post by Target on May 25, 2009, 08:17 PM »

So, you're from the transcendentalist school of programming.

-cranioscopical (May 25, 2009, 06:55 PM)

Ommmm, let me see...
I did go to school in the sixties...

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to duplicate a file in the same folder?

« Last post by Target on May 25, 2009, 06:25 PM »

This is a neat tool but I've noticed that when copying a folder, it becomes just a file.

-mrmandala (May 25, 2009, 11:50 AM)

that was the original request (it was never intended to duplicate folders)