wow , I didn't know it was possible!
I was wrong when I decided I will click "later" on the external link from the help file. And everything from this page is working in DOpus?
TR1 Regular Expressions
So many times I was frustrated by the lack of such function....many thanks for that, that's definitely helpful!
For now, I will use a separate label for multi-part RAR, that seems to me the simpler way to deal with them. But the other info you posted will be very useful for other things.
However, I would like to give my opinion/feedback about considering '.partX' as a part of file extension in the column extension.
[quote="leo"]Yes, there is special, intentional handling for .partX.rar files.
It's mainly so that when you push F2, only the main name of the archive is selected, not the .partX part as well.
But the .partX really is part of the file extension and if you remove if the archive becomes invalid. (Multi-part RAR archives have a flag in their headers which specifies whether they use the old .rXX extensions or the new .partX.rar extensions. If you rename the files so that they no longer agree with the flag in the header, many RAR tools will become confused.)[/quote]For me as a user, a multi-part RAR archive is just some RAR files like any other RAR archive, there is nothing special about them.
As you said, if I edit or remove the .partX from the file name, the archive will not work correctly anymore (or will not work at all) but where I disagree with you is, it will be the same if you rename also the base name for just one file:
test.part1.rar+test.part2.rar= works
test.party.rar+test.part2.rar = doesn't work
but
fest.part1.rar+test.part2.rar = doesn't work also
The '.partX' thing just like consistency with the base name are as important. I don't understand the kind of problem DOpus is trying to fix splitting the base name and the '.partX'. These two information should never be separated in my opinion.
You pointed pressing F2 will allow to edit only the main name of the archive which is really smart and "elegant"...but seriously, why would someone like to edit manually a multi-part RAR archive name? I mean, it is needed to rename all the files with exactly the same main name and as a multi-part means at least two files, I don't know who would like to do that manually when mass renaming is so much efficient. It is like trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. The only reason to do that manually, is when some of the file are not using the right name...but that means the files are already incorrectly named.
Now, do what you want with my opinion as the solution you gave to me is working perfectly so I am happy with that