What's new in Rename Files 1.3.3
Dec 22, 2008
- Further improvement of some features and error trapping
- Added the view file feature while using the file-by-file renaming option;
- Added an error trap when files instead of folders containing files are dropped for script processing;
- More in-house clean-up and compacting of codes;
- Added more comments to further enhance the readability and informational value of the script
New in Rename Files 1.3.2 (Dec 17, 2008)
- Further refinements to the option to rename files using filenames extracted from a source document
- The source text file now has the default name of the target folder for easier referencing;
- More in-house clean-up and compacting of codes
New in Rename Files 1.3.1 (Dec 3, 2008)
- Duplicate files are now listed and written to a text file on the desktop. Sequential editing of the source file shows the duplicates of every session separated by broken lines and dated accordingly. Users may opt to discard the "Duplicates List.txt" file and start with a fresh one in every editing session if so preferred.
- The "write-to-file template" action after a run-time error has been deprecated to do away with several confusing files created on the desktop. Now, the previous edited file is automatically kept on the desktop for use in fresh editing after run-time error. This prevents the previous work from being easily overwritten, and therefore, wasted away.
- Multiple session editing and renaming of files can now be easily carried out and should work well when renaming a big batch of files in the target folder.
New in Rename Files 1.3.0 (Dec 2, 2008)
- More enhancements on the option of renaming file items based on a source text file document
- Editing of the source text file document can be done while the target folder is open for viewing as reference
- More helpful error traps for duplicate and blank entries; duplicate text items are now collected and listed in a dialog box making it easy to pinpoint when editing the source file
New in Rename Files 1.2.9d (Nov 25, 2008)
- Another quick fix for an inadvertent "cut and paste" mistake in the codes for the "batch-rename files..." option. These serial updates offer the following features:
- More informative error traps when the script fails to read the source file;
- The script now "flattens" the source file to standardize it to a "carriage return-delimited" document to avoid any complication from varying file delimiters;
- The script now programmatically strips off the extra carriage return that is automatically added by the text editor at the last item of a saved file.
New in Rename Files 1.2.9c (Nov 24, 2008)
- A very quick fix for an inadvertent error on "creating or restoring a text file template". This version offers the following:
- More informative error traps when the script fails to read the source file
- The script now "flattens" the source file to standardize it to a "carriage return-delimited" document to avoid any complication from varying file delimiters
- The script now programmatically strips off the extra carriage return that is automatically added by the text editor at the last item of a saved file
New in Rename Files 1.2.9 (Nov 10, 2008)
- This latest version is now truly more stable and works much better at renaming files using the source text file option for several reasons:
- One can now create the source text file from scratch using the script, which is probably even better than starting one from a blank slate especially if not all items are to be modified.
- If you accidentally trash the most up-to-date source file or it gets corrupted, the script can now recreate it with the correct order of the file items in the target folder.
- Users can now rename the title of the text file template to a more preferred title, making it easy to keep track of the latest version for fresh editing run, something that users with very large target folders may need in order to do multiple editing runs.
- Non-functional error traps, such as script cancel/abort that did not work, as well as a few others, were corrected.
New in Rename Files 1.2.7 (Nov 3, 2008)
- A further fix to make the option to rename files from source text file more stable and error-free
- Simplified error trap with one general message to show the possible problems in reading the source file;
- Fixed the write to file handler to make sure that the new text editing template is saved as Unicode text rather than Mac OS Western type which creates a problem;
- Provides the option to name the new editing template with a preferred, easily recognizable name.
New in Rename Files 1.2.6 (Oct 28, 2008)
- A quick fix for an error that leads to misreading the source text file