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kunkel321

Member

From: Washington State

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 38

Script request: Remove left-part, if over long file name

I haven't visited the forum in a while.  I hope everyone is in good spirits during these long quarantine days. 

My scenario:   I have a bunch of ebooks that have long file names.  Mostly they are in the form of

"author1, author2, author3, author4, author5 - Really long name of book is here"

Many are over 256 characters long, which causes problems with windows.  I don't know if ReNamer is able to work with these types of files, but I'd like to do a bulk-rename.  The rule:

If length of file name > 256 chars, then rename that file. 
When renaming, keep name of book, but remove authors and deliminator. 
*Assume that authors are at the left of the deliminator.
*Deliminator = " - " (i.e. space dash space)

Thoughts?  -Steve

kunkel321

Member

From: Washington State

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 38

Re: Script request: Remove left-part, if over long file name

Actually, I found a work-around....   I realized that I can add a "Length" column in my file explorer.  I can sort by length, then use ReNamer to rename only the needed items.

den4b

Administrator

From: den4b.com

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 3,440

Re: Script request: Remove left-part, if over long file name

The pascal script below should do the job:

const
  MaxFileNameLength = 255;
begin
  if Length(FileName) > MaxFileNameLength then
  begin
    FileName := ReplaceRegEx(FileName, '\A(.*?) - (.*)\Z', '$2', False, True);
  end;
end.

You can adjust the MaxFileNameLength constant as you see fit.

Alternatively, if you pre-filter the files and only have those exceeding the desired length, then you can just apply the Regular Expressions rule.

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