@zridling: It's a shame you do not search the forum before posting 

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.

Denis is back ==> The not easy story of the development, and the new way of things ==> http://den4b.com/forum/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/forum/viewtopic.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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@surftwo

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

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

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

[attach]

WildRename looks pretty good.  Anyone using it yet?

Thanks!

Jim

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

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


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.

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

Quote

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-expressions.info/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)