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File naming for albums that begin with "." on a Mac resulting in hidden folders.
pillshovel:
On OS-X any folder that starts with a "." is hidden. I have a few albums that this affects. Example: When I use MC23 to rename the files on the Kyuss album ...And the Circus Leaves Town, it results in a hidden folder so then no other software can see the files. Would it be possible to have MC automatically replace the ... with _.. or something similar (this is how iTunes gets around it)?
Awesome Donkey:
This is common with Mac and Linux.
I use the Rename, Move, & Copy Files tool with this directories rule;
--- Code: ---[Album Artist]\regex([Album], /#^(\.*)(.*?)(\.*)$#/, -1)replace([R1],.,_)[R2]replace([R3],.,_)
--- End code ---
The rule above, e.g. the [Album Artist]\ part can be changed/customized to whatever your desired setup is but the regex part for Album is what's needed here. Keep in mind, I run the above on all my new imported files (all previous files already had this ran on them) on Windows since Windows doesn't hide folders starting with a period by default. I assume if you can view hidden folders in Finder (and thus MC) it can be ran this way too, not sure.
Ultimately with the above, a cross platform library (Windows, Mac and Linux in my case) works great but it'll work great too if you're using Mac or Linux and have albums like the one you posted above that begins with a period. :)
RD James:
If I recall correctly, [option] + [;] results in the proper ellipsis character … rather than using periods.
It would be great if there was some easy way to set up a replacement table in MC rather than using complex expressions.
pillshovel:
--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on November 10, 2017, 07:26:22 am ---This is common with Mac and Linux.
I use the Rename, Move, & Copy Files tool with this directories rule;
--- Code: ---[Album Artist]\regex([Album], /#^(\.*)(.*?)(\.*)$#/, -1)replace([R1],.,_)[R2]replace([R3],.,_)
--- End code ---
The rule above, e.g. the [Album Artist]\ part can be changed/customized to whatever your desired setup is but the regex part for Album is what's needed here. Keep in mind, I run the above on all my new imported files (all previous files already had this ran on them) on Windows since Windows doesn't hide folders starting with a period by default. I assume if you can view hidden folders in Finder (and thus MC) it can be ran this way too, not sure.
Ultimately with the above, a cross platform library (Windows, Mac and Linux in my case) works great but it'll work great too if you're using Mac or Linux and have albums like the one you posted above that begins with a period. :)
--- End quote ---
Thank you, I will try that tonight and see if it fixes my issue.
pillshovel:
--- Quote from: RD James on November 10, 2017, 09:33:40 am ---If I recall correctly, [option] + [;] results in the proper ellipsis character … rather than using periods.
It would be great if there was some easy way to set up a replacement table in MC rather than using complex expressions.
--- End quote ---
That's actually what I was hoping for...to be able to set it up to automatically take care of this internally.
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