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    Editorial Renaming

   
    About. This strange feature appeared in AC Browser v. 2.0. I had this idea, when some day, I was putting my CD records to mp3 in my hard disk. I made a mistake with files naming, whole directory of mp3's had bad file names - the first song had title of the second one in real, the second one the title of the third one etc...The last one had the title of the first one. So they were wrong. I started to rename them, and this idea appeared - how it would be simple if I could edit it just like in a e.g. Notepad. I would just move the first line to the end... and everything would be ok....

    I finished renaming those files in a normal way, but just when I found the time, I created the Editorial Renaming tool. When you turn it on, you get just what I wanted - the edit box in which you can edit files' names just like in a text editor. Then just press Rename, and... done.

Keyboard shortcuts

    To activate Editorial Renaming window press Alt+3

    Inside Editorial Renaming window :
    You will not find this keyboard shortcuts in any menu or context menu, so try to remember them :)
    Ctrl+H - Find and replace dialog.
    Alt+down arrow - make the selection lowercase
    Alt+up arrow - make the selection UPPERCASE
    Alt+Shift+up arrow - make the first letter uppercase, the rest lowercase, like "Word"   

Notes

    Of course the number of files in a list, and the number of lines in the edit box must be identical. Remember that if there is a newline made (because of enter pressed) at the end of all the text, it's counted as new entry, and ACB will not proceed.

    Also, ACB will not proceed if file names repeat in the edit box.

    Yes, you can use this tool with ACL, however the ACL information will not be updated, and so the ACL is not valid any more.

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Copyright Konrad Papala; [ACB::Help Online]