Button for Sent To destination or drag & drop

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Until I can master the renaming script functionality in Dopus, I've been using Better File Rename to batch rename large sets of files. The application allows you to define a rename script and save it to a droplet file that you can use to drag and drop files onto. I created a shortcut to this file in my Send To context menu so that I can 'send' the selected files to that file.

The problem is that after selecting a large set of 100+ files in the lister and right-clicking for the context menu, it takes 10-60 seconds or so before I can select the Send To destination. I presume Dopus is enumerating information in all of the files before allowing me to perform any action on them...?

I'd like to create a button in Dopus that will allow me to either:

  1. Select files, then click on this button to simulate the drag and drop action onto the droplet file, or,
  2. Define the button to immediately invoke the Send To shortcut link that points to this file.

Is this possible? Many thanks in advance.

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The Send To menu may be slow if you have slow or unreachable destinations within it, e.g. network folders that aren't there anymore.

How to send files to the droplet file without drag & drop depends on how the droplet file and/or program works. I'm not familiar with the program. Do you know if it has a command-line interface? That would be the easiest way to do it, if it does.

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You can set up a button to send files to a specific "send to" destination automatically. You need the name of the actual "send to" file, so in this case if it was rename.droplet, the command would be:

Copy SENDTO rename.droplet
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Bingo Jon! I just needed to add the shortcut extension to make it happy - Copy SENDTO "Rename Style1.lnk". Thanks!!