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Title: Question on expressions
Post by: JustinChase on May 21, 2005, 11:44:22 pm

I am trying to rename a TON of pictures by their folder name, with numbers after them.

I have been using Thumbs to do this, but it's quite tedious.  I have over 200 folders, and I have to do each one by hand.

I want to use MC to do this, but can't figure out how.

i have written an advanced expression using the Mid() command, since they are all in the same subdirectory, and I can start at the right spot and show all the rest of the filename.  This method, however gives me the folder info I want, but also includes the filename.  All of the filenames are of different lengths, so i can't bulk exclude by that.

Is there any way to use the Mid() to get the beginning of the folder info, but use the [Name] field to remove the name info at the end?

The Expression might look something like this...

=(Mid([Filename], 45, -1)-[Name])

or maybe using the Clean() function?

any ideas?

Thanks!!!!!

Title: Re: Question on expressions
Post by: JustinChase on May 22, 2005, 12:14:56 am

Okay, I've got this far.

With the following expression, I get the folder path info I want (it includes a \ at the end, but I can work with that).

Mid(FilePath([Filename]), 45, -1)

but it is only in a custom field.  I can't figure out how to rename using that expression.  If I rename from properties, it doesn't work.  If starts too late in the path.  If I change the 45 to 23 to correct for this, it still starts too late (in the same spot).

If I could figure out how to use these results to bulk rename, I'm pretty much there.

Any ideas?

Thanks again!!!

Title: Re: Question on expressions
Post by: EpF on May 22, 2005, 02:21:38 am

Hi Justin; Can you give us some examples of the filenames/paths you're working with...