Short: Powerful multi-file renaming tool (MUI) Author: Daniel Westerberg (daniel TA onyxsoft TOD se) Uploader: Daniel Westerberg Type: util/misc Version: 1.62 Requires: MUI, TextEditor.mcc, NList(view).mcc, BetterString.mcc Architecture: m68k-amigaos This program is for renaming, usually many files (hence the name) using specially designed Tools to do the dirty work for you! But you can also manually step through the list using a simple string gadget in a very comfortable way! *** This program has been successfully tested on AmigaOS4-upd2! Features: ~~~~~~~~~ - It supports filenames of up to 512 characters! - It uses MUI! - You can save the list for later perfection and final renaming! - You can export the filelist as a completely customized textfile! - Many ways to automatically renames the files to what you really want! - You can number files if you want to make fileseries of some kind! - You can edit and cutomize the filecomments of your files! - It's great to use when managing playlists or things like that! The tools you can use in MultiRen is: >> Sort - Sort your files anyhow, or shuffle them for saving in a text file.. >> FileCleaner - Clean your filenames from unwanted characters and more.. >> Adaptor - Make all you filenames have the same length, smart one.. >> Extension Editor - Change/add/remove/clean up your filename-extensions.. >> RenPlacer - Advanced *wildcard?-based rename/replace/find-functions.. >> Numberer - Number your files, or remove numbers. bin/dec/hex/alfa.. >> File Comment - Edit your filecomments AND filenames anyway you like! Two useful things that I didn't classify as tools..: >> Export list as text.. - Save the list as text for use in f.ex a script or as a playlist or just as a structured and easy to read textfile.. >> Import a text file.. - Import new filenames from a textfile.. One of the more useful features of MultiRen is that no files are actually renamed during your work, but only when you decide so and press Rename in the main window! Another great thing is that you can save the list of filenames and their states if you want to continue the next day or maybe just to save the list as a backup so that you can undo your work at a later state if a tool didn't do quite what you expected. You can use it to create playlists, perhaps sorted or shuffled if you want. You can also edit file comments in a flexible way, like adding date or filelength to them or so. And not to forget: MultiRen supports plugins that can extract information from different files to use when renaming! News: ~~~~~ * FIX * Apparently I had to re-introduce that stack-hack I removed in the last version, but this time with a version check so that it doesn't get executed if running V50+ (OS4). * NEW * Added a few more options to the File Cleaner. v1.61 ~~~~~ ** The FileCleaner now makes it possible to change space and underscore to the special white space character which is slightly longer than normal space in some fonts. It has ASCII value 160 and can be typed with Alt+Spacebar. ** The FileCleaner now makes it possible to change normal hyphens (-) to a dashes (­) which has ASCII value 173 and are slightly longer than hyphens in some fonts which can make the files look better. Dashes can be typed with Alt+n. ** Now sorting has been extended to include more ways to sort file comments and paths. ** Removed some kind of stack-hack proposed by someone. This hack doesn't work on OS4, or with EC3.3, which caused MultiRen to crash on exit. ** Removed an astonishing amount of hits revealed by OS4's memory-protection :-) v1.6 ~~~~ * Now it's possible to sort by the value of numbers, not just by characters. This means that "9-.." will come before "10-..". With the old (still available) character sort 10 would come before 9 because "1" comes before "9". * Now you can sort the memo list in the Renplacer tool. * Some tools could hange with the gauge open if used on an empty list, like f.ex. the "Import a text file" feature. * Adding files shuffled only worked when adding files explicitly, not when adding a directory or recursive directory. * Now it's also possible to load a list and get the files in the list shuffled with themselves or also with the files already in the list! NOTE: These shuffle functions are very handy when you want to have random playlists, or random picture lists or something. Just add files, shuffle, and export as text. * I forgot one allocation object when I made the list adding and clearing faster in v1.53. Now I put the last object in the memory pool too and clearing a list of 6000 entries is now made in a fraction of a second on a 060/50 compared to several seconds in v1.53 and almost halv a minute in v1.52 and earlier. * Now there's a function for deleting duplicates of files. Useful when dealing with paths and files during creation of scripts for example. * When fixing duplicates with ".. add ~N .." an actual number is added, not just a character. * When using custom strings in the Text Export window or the File Comment tool you can not specify how much of the end of a string you want to skip. Ex: %o[10,-3] would start to read the Old name at character 10 and read to the end but exclude the last 3 characters. Useful to remove extension on filenames with variable length when using a custom string. v1.54 ~~~~~ * Added a function to the Adaptor tool so that is possible to control what character the Adaptor should put the lengthener character around when prolonging a filename. * Now the filename length also displays the length of the file comment (which cannot be more than 80 characters in AmigaDOS). The format is now in the window. Also, the file comment gets /italic/ in the main lister if it exceeds 79 characters. * Added the operator %t for use in the text export and file comment generation tools. This stands for tab. Whenever a %t is encountered a tab stop is set there which gets determind by the longest string up to the %t. Many %t's can be used in an export string. This way very nice columnized text files and file comments can be produced! * The memo list handling (in the RenPlacer, File Comment and Text Export tools) now saves the memo lists immediately when stored or removed if the checkmark in prefs is set. This makes it easier to not forget to save then when quitting the proram :) * Updated the ID3-Tag plugin so that it always returns two digits for the track number. F.ex. 01,02,03...10,11,etc instead of 1,2,3...10,11 which makes it look nicer. v1.53 ~~~~~ * Adding files and loading a list is now more than twice as fast and clearing the list/exiting the program with files in the list is about 4 times faster than before! * New plugin: Quoted Printable. It converts %20 etc to real characters. * I gave the Extension Editor a major overhaul and I hope I made it more useful, atleast its functions should be consistent now and not so vague as before. * Added some new extensions to the list of default extensions for the Extension Editor. * I broke the code for dropping icons and shift-click adding items at start a couple of versions ago, now I restored the code again. MultiRen thought that everthing was directories. * Some people reported the FileCleaner tool crashed. This might be fixed now as I found something in it that could have triggered a bug in the compiler! v1.52 ~~~~~ * Included the Substitute Generator into MultiRen. This should have been done a long time ago but it just didn't happen.. * Added a plugin: NGPTool. This helps renaming Neo-Geo Pocket rom files! * Broke a function in the Renplacer in the last release when renaming using single wildcard. It could cause the renplacer to hang. * Fixed another bug in the Renplacer when renaming with single wildcard: If a string didn't match (and therefor shouldn't be affected) it was instead replaced by the source, e.g. the old name instead of being left as it was. * Made a couple of changes to the "Export list as text"-functions. Now it's possible to use a custom string just as in the File Comment tool. You can still use it as before and this has been made even more simple! * Custom string in the File Comment tool and the Text Export can now be save as the Renplacer strings can using that simple Store, Remove and popdown menu functions! -- Other programs by Deniil 715! can be found on OnyxSoft homepage at: http://www.onyxsoft.se/ Feel free to mail me if you found bugs or have suggestions! .