Pre-pending to filenames

[Eric]

OK I'm sure that I'm missing it somewhere. I'd like to pre-pend the {datesort} to the existing filenames in a folder. The files are already sequenced  my_big_toe_001.jpg   my_big_toe_002.jpg    my_big_toe_003.jpg  all I want to do is add a date and maybe one more variable. How?

[Kirk Baker]

Eric,

OK I'm sure that I'm missing it somewhere. I'd like to pre-pend the {datesort} to the existing filenames in a folder. The files are already sequenced  my_big_toe_001.jpg   my_big_toe_002.jpg    my_big_toe_003.jpg  all I want to do is add a date and maybe one more variable. How?

Just use:

{datesort}{filenamebase}

That should do it.

-Kirk

[Eric]

Thank You

[Eric]

Kirk That did work but.....

I have had this happen in the past when renaming and just had it happen again. Half of the folder was named as expected the res have a ###_temp and a number thrown in. IE

20081019-15040000-_###_TMP_00091_Wellesley Peewee B vs Belmont Peewee B-0092.jpg    Where is the _###_TMP_00091_ coming from and how do I stop it ?  Originally the file was named "Wellesley Peewee B vs Belmont Peewee B-0092.jpg"

Eric

[Kirk Baker]

Eric,

Kirk That did work but.....

I have had this happen in the past when renaming and just had it happen again. Half of the folder was named as expected the res have a ###_temp and a number thrown in. IE

20081019-15040000-_###_TMP_00091_Wellesley Peewee B vs Belmont Peewee B-0092.jpg    Where is the _###_TMP_00091_ coming from and how do I stop it ?  Originally the file was named "Wellesley Peewee B vs Belmont Peewee B-0092.jpg"

What would the final name have been?
What filesystem are you renaming on?
What OS are you running?
What version of Photo Mechanic are you running?

-Kirk

[Eric]

The final name should have been :
20081019-15040000-Wellesley Peewee B vs Belmont Peewee B-0092.jpg    and was for the first 91 files.

The ###_TMP_00091 only shows up form 92 to 280. I renamed 13000 files and this only happened on one folder this time. But I have had it happen in the past. No biggie any other time, as I just renamed the folder again and the issue resolved. This time I need to keep the sequences intact and didn't want to risk mixing things up.

OS is Windows XP pro
NTFS
PM ver 4.5.3.2