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dveal

Member

Registered: 2009-01-19

Posts: 1

Ignoring previously named files

Hi

Love the renamer product but I'm struggling with something I'm sure is very obvious. I have a set of .doc files in a folder that are named with a number and a surname e.g 123456789SMITH. I have rules that insert underscores and some additional date information and then another application I own comes along and moves these documents into another folder and emails them out. What I need to be able to do is get renamer to ignore the files that have already been renamed so that only the new files with the basic naming convention get renamed. Can anyone help?.

Stefan

Moderator

From: Germany, EU

Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 1,161

Re: Ignoring previously named files

Hi dveal welcome,

- use different folders for new and already renamed files

or
- use explorer sort by date and add only new files to ReNamer

or inside ReNamer
- right click on files and check out context menu items; f.ex. selection by mask or by name length

or
- add an RegEx with someone common of your new file names, like
----Expression: (your RegEx here)
----Replace: aaaaa$1    .....where 'aaaaa' is just to see it better
----Then 'Preview'
----Then sort 'New Name'
----Then select all those 'aaaaaaYourRegEx' -files and Then Shift+U nMark them

Now disable the RegEx-Rule and  work with all the other files still marked..

Last edited by Stefan (2009-01-19 20:56)

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