Everything - Advanced Rename, Ignore Case in generated Format?

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therube
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Everything - Advanced Rename, Ignore Case in generated Format?

Post by therube »

Everything - Advanced Rename, Ignore Case in generated Format?

would that make sense? maybe not? might not even be a clean method to code it?


say you have 1000 files

Code: Select all

Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - From a pebble.mp3
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - Pebbles.mp3
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - Might.mp3
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - Upper.mp3
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - Banker.mp3
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - Swing.mp3
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - Adrift.mp3
...
jethro tull thick as a brick - Kismet.mp3
...

Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - What-ifs.mp3
999 of JT are Capitalized <titlecase:>
1 file name, Kismet is in lower case

if you were to select all 1000
Shift+F2

you would get something like
%1ethro %2ull %3hick %4s %5 %6rick - %7


if there were an Ignore case, in generated Format match, option

you would get something like
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - %1

then, if you wanted to strip the <sp> (in the "name-part")
you could use something like this in New Format:


JethroTullThickAsABrick - %1


would something like that make sense?

case, while ignored in the generated format: (& hence "irrelevant" in the Old format:)
would not be ignored in the the New format:

if, New format: JTTAAB, all will be named as such, including that 1 lowercase file name
if, New format: JTTaab, all will be named as such (mixed)
if, New format: jttaab, all will be named as such (lower)


Might not make sense, particularly, even if it could be useful, or at least, clearer, possibly?
void
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Re: Everything - Advanced Rename, Ignore Case in generated Format?

Post by void »

The generated formats match case.

There's too much guess work as to what the format should be if you were to ignore case.
should the format be:
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - %1
or
jethro tull thick as a brick - %1

You could guess that Jethro is more common so use that, but it's still a guess.

To avoid any confusion, and because it's useful for fixing case mismatches, Everything will generate formats using case sensitivity.



You can check Ingore case and set the old format to:
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - %1

and the new format to:
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick - %1

But the auto generated format will never do this.