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[djfalstaff]

The new cloud syncing service I tried had a little issue with figuring out what to do with 900 music files I was working on today in JRiver tagging files and this is the issue it caused.
I have 900 files that look like this.

Album Folder Name
   TrackName.flac
   TrackName - [conflicted].flac

It glitched out on on my tag updates and created the new file with the appended "-[conflicted]" on the end. These files are the most up to date versions of the files.

I need to find and delete the originals, keep the appended name file, and then rename that file to the original name.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how to leverage JRiver to make this a little less painful to fix?

[ferday]

do they all literally have [conflicted].flac at the end?

if so you can rename them back to normal using

removeright([name],15)

to find them, make a smartlist with Name contains conflicted (or name does not contain)

[djfalstaff]

Oh ,this just keeps getting better and better...
Some got appended with "[conflicted]" and some got appended with "(conflicted)"

I need to make a "bad file" list.
First find all the files that have the appended "[conflicted]" or "(conflicted)" in the file name
Then find it's "bad twin" and display that one in the list instead
Then I can use the list to move to delete the "bad files"

After that I can just rename the files with the appended names to the original.

[blgentry]

Do you still have the originals?  If so, just get rid of the weird files.

If not, it seems you've got some work to do.  MC may not be the best tool for this job.  A scripting language, or a specific renaming tool may be better suited, easier, and more consistent.

Brian.

[MikeO]

Try the MusiCHI Tagger for a 28 day demo . It has a very comprehensive text Processing section that should do the job

Mike