Renaming Children Folders with Parent Name

phreaq · 2009-02-25 18:09

Hi Folks,

I am trying to rename a series of folders, but I'm not sure how to do it, since metadata isn't available for folders.

My current structure is:

c:\artist\album\[contents]

I want to combine the names so that I get a folder name of "artist - album".

I suspect my final folder structure would look like this (c:\artist\artist - album\[contents]), which is fine, I'll just drag the children to the root.

any help is appreciated,

thanks in advance,

krtek · 2009-02-25 19:16

Take a look on that topic. It might be useful.

phreaq · 2009-02-25 20:02

thanks for the reply krtek

I did see that post, but it's using information from the first file to populate the folder prefix. My files don't have the parent folder information stored in them, so I cannot pull any data from the file itself.

or am I missing something?

den4b · 2009-02-28 13:10

You can use :File_FolderName: meta tag to access parent folder name.

So in your case, when you added your folders as files for renaming, add Insert rule: ":File_FolderName: - ".

phreaq · 2009-03-03 14:21

I tried using the option, but I'm not getting the results I want. I just get " - album name", no artist info

Where is it trying to get the meta data from? I don't have any files in the folders that have meta data info.

krtek · 2009-03-03 14:55

Hmmm... I have reproduced that result.
It seems that :File_FolderName: works only for files and not for folders...

Last edited by krtek (2009-03-03 16:08)

SafetyCar · 2009-03-03 14:58

The metatags don't work for folders

Last edited by SafetyCar (2009-03-03 14:59)

krtek · 2009-03-03 15:04

You can try to use this simple PascalScript for that job:

var 
Path, SubFolders : TStringsArray;
Depth : Integer;
 
begin
  if not WideFileExists(FilePath) then
  begin
    SetLength(SubFolders,0);
    Path:=WideSplitString(FilePath,'\');
    WideScanDirForFolders(FilePath, SubFolders ,True, False, False);
    Depth:=Length(Path);
    If (Depth>1) and (Length(SubFolders)=0) then
      FileName:=Path[Depth-2]+' - ' + Path[Depth-1];
  end;
end.

Script will omit files and will proceed only the deepest folders.

Last edited by krtek (2009-03-03 15:25)

phreaq · 2009-03-03 15:49

krtek wrote:

You can try to use this simple PascalScript for that job:

var 
Path, SubFolders : TStringsArray;
Depth : Integer;
 
begin
  if not WideFileExists(FilePath) then
  begin
    SetLength(SubFolders,0);
    Path:=WideSplitString(FilePath,'\');
    WideScanDirForFolders(FilePath, SubFolders ,True, False, False);
    Depth:=Length(Path);
    If (Depth>1) and (Length(SubFolders)=0) then
      FileName:=Path[Depth-2]+' - ' + Path[Depth-1];
  end;
end.

Script will omit files and will proceed only the deepest folders.

dude, you rock. that does the trick

it's been a while since I used pascal, thanks for your efforts.

alext · 2009-09-16 22:55

Hi,
I'm really struggling with something which seems very related to this but since I don't understand pascal I don't know how to modify this script for my needs.
Basically, I have songs files in a big folder in the format "Artist - Song.mp3". I want to rename them so that all the songs by the same artist appear in separate folders. ie I want to have "Artist/Song.mp3".
Please can you help. I know this must be simple but I've been searching the forum for ages and still have no idea.
Thanks!

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Renaming Children Folders with Parent Name

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