Hi all,
I am a newbie and have scanned the archives (though there are a lot of topics related to filenaming) and have not found what I’m looking for…
I have two questions:
Q1: Delimiter and swap
I have a lot of files in the following format
abc - def.ext
These files may have different lengths of parts, separated by the “-” e.g.,
aaaaabbbbcccc - ddddddefff.ext
“ext” is the extension and should remain the same.
and want to rename them as
def - abc.ext
In other words, I want to copy the text up to the “-”, then delete it from the file name, then append it at the end, separated by a “-”?
Q2: Two files 1 name
I have two files (a large quantity in this pairing) - they are linked. The EXT(2) is metadata for EXT(1).
abcdef.EXT(1)
abcdef.EXT(1).EXT(2)
What happens is I run abcdef.EXT(1) through a process which results in a prepend of the file name. eg, 123-abcdef.EXT(1)
Once this happens, they become unlinked and therefore requiring me to rename the EXT(2) in bulk…
Is there a way to copy “123-abcdef” into a cue and then paste this over the 2nd file, resulting in 123-abcdef.EXT(1).EXT(2)?
I’d love to do this via droplet - drop the first file, to copy the string and then drop the 2nd file for target renaming.
That’s it…
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Moosh