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fritz · Guest

Excuse me but I have a new problem:

How to rename some files with sequencial name or date/time?

Thanks

BoBo · Guest

ILL.1 · Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 84

Look under the index in the help file for A_Now and Rename. They should give you a hint on how to rename files and also use variables within filenames.

Simple example of variable usage:

fritz · Guest

I have many problem with english. (and AHK too!!)

In a directory F:\Hotkey\ I have some files es:
aaa.txt
bbb.txt
ccc.txt

I want trasform this files in:

1000.txt
1001.txt
1002.txt
(because I have a program who ouput files with the same name)

Have a solution?
Please working example, I' very very newbie!
Thanks!

fritz · Guest

I'm not lazy, I'm not very smart.....

Guest · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject: ?????????????

who????????

BoBo · Guest

Da bei den Alliierten der Name "Fritz" als Synonym für "die Deutschen" stand/steht, vermute ich das du deine Problemstellung möglicherweise besser auf Deutsch erklären kannst!? Wenn ja, schieß los Razz

Schon gesehen --> [hier] ? Wink

fritz · Guest

Many Thank; is perfect!!!

Your deduction its half right, I am half Deutsch but Unfortnelly I don't speak Deutsch; only speak Italian & Brasilian Portuguese.

Bye!

BoBo · Guest

Faz favor

fritz · Guest

sai cosa significa bobo in portoghese?

Laszlo · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 4078 Location: Pittsburgh

You might get unpleasant surprises if there are number filenames already in the directory (that is, if you run the script a second time). In a similar case my script created a subdirectory named with the current date and time and moved the files into this new directory, without changing their names. This way I kept all the versions of the files, separated. Another possibility is to attach to the filename the date and time when it was last modified. You could check first if the filename has already this attached time info.

Theoretically, you could still get collisions. Maybe, the best is to rename and move your files into an empty temporary directory (specifying the explicit path), delete the now empty original directory and rename your temporary directory to the name of the original. When making the temporary directory, you have to check the error level, to see if there was a name collision. In that case try another directory name, like Fritz0001, Fritz0002, etc., until there is no problem with creating it.

fritz · Guest

very intresting, thank you!