This button will rename the parent folder to the same name as the selected file/folder (excluding file extension):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<button backcol="none" display="label" textcol="none">
<label>Rename Parent Folder</label>
<tip>Rename the Parent Folder to the same name as the Selected File/Folder</tip>
<icon1>#newcommand</icon1>
<function type="normal">
<instruction>@firstfileonly</instruction>
<instruction>Rename {filepath$|..|noterm} TO {file$|noext}</instruction>
</function>
</button>
This button will rename the selected file/folder to the same name as the parent folder:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<button backcol="none" display="label" textcol="none">
<label>Rename File to Parent</label>
<tip>Rename the Selected File/Folder to the same name as the Parent Folder</tip>
<icon1>#newcommand</icon1>
<function type="normal">
<instruction>Rename TO="{parent}.{ext}" FILEINFO </instruction>
</function>
</button>
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Hi, these functions will be very usefull but it missing for renaming multiples files from a Parent Folder Name, so a RegEx rename command with a counter can be seriously usefull.e.g: "name_of_previous_folder-01.jpg","name_of_previous_folder-02.jpg","name_of_previous_folder-03.jpg"...
it Gives a function button like that:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<button display="both" label_pos="right" separate="yes">
<label>Rename by Parent Folder Name and Counter</label>
<tip>Changes files by Parent Folder Name and Counter</tip>
<icon1>16</icon1>
<function type="normal">
<instruction>Rename REGEXP PATTERN "(.*)\.(.*)" TO "{parent}-[#].\2" FILEINFO NUMBER=01 </instruction>
</function>
</button>
[quote="indigo"]How can I rename multiple parent folders?
I have 1000s of files for which parent folders are to be renamed.. pls help[/quote]
Please give us more info on what you are trying to do.
How have you already got the list of those 1000s of files, either in a file collection or in a filtered flat-view window? Or do you need to work out a way to do that first?
What is the criteria for knowing which file within a folder should be used as that folders name (instead of some other file within the same folder)?
All the folders have only one file inside.
I can create a search and get all the files in a lister. Now I want to rename the parent folders of each file to the respective file names.
Whats the best way to do that?
dopusrt /cmd Rename {filepath$|..|noterm} TO {file$|noext}
i.e. Same as the first button/command in the thread, except:
[ul][li]@firstfileonly removed, so that it acts on all selected files, not just the first one.
(In a normal directory, it makes sense to ignore any accidental extra selections, since the one-and-only parent folder can only be renamed to one of the file's names, but that doesn't apply for what you're doing with multiple files in different folders.)
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[li]dopusrt /cmd added tot he start of the line.
(This is a workaround/kludge. Without it, the first directory gets renamed automatically but then the Rename window appears for the others. Using "dopusrt /cmd" changes when the {file$} etc. arguments are turned into actual filenames, which avoids whatever is causing the problem.)[/li][/ul]
The command should be run with the files selected, and will then rename those files' parent directories.
