Manipulate naming "Copy of <fn>" to "<fn> - Copy of"

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When I want to make a spare copy of a file, I select a file and press copy, directly followed by paste.
Now a copy of the file is made in the current dir and named "Copy of ".
I'd like it to be " - copy of", like Windows7 does nowadays.
It keeps the files together when sorted on name.

Is this naming to be manipulated?

I found this thread when looking for the problem, but there never was a satisfying answer:
https://resource.dopus.com/t/copy-paste-files-copy-of-file-into-file--copyof/7194/1.
That's why I try it once more.

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Please check this code with caution! It was brought together in hours of trial & error, & actually i don´t know much about this stuff. :smiley:
But it seems to work, so far. Note, that it only should aplly to MP3 files.

@nodeselect Rename PATTERN="Kopie von " TO="\~" FINDREP @nodeselect rename *.mp3 TO "* - Copy of.*mp3"

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Sorry, correct code is:

@nodeselect Rename PATTERN="Copy Of " TO="\~" FINDREP @nodeselect rename *.mp3 TO "* - Copy of.*mp3"

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For all file types:

@nodeselect Rename PATTERN="Copy of " TO="\~" FINDREP @nodeselect rename *.* TO "* - Copy of.*.*"

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Abr, thanks for your reply. This is a rename action which does what I asked for.
Only, it will take me two steps to accomplish the end-result. I hoped it could be done in one step.

For that matter: While copying from source to destination, DO has intelligent renaming as well.
It then adds a number to the file name " (#).".
This would be acceptable for me as well when coping from and to source.

So how to tune this copying naming behavior?

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Looking for something else in the help, I came across "RENAMEWHENSAME".
Probably the same situation.

Anyone?

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RENAMEWHENSAME can be added to the Copy command (the one for copying files; not related to the clipboard or Clipboard COPY) but it's the Clipboard PASTE command which pastes files from the clipboard so it won't change what that does.

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This is not exactly what was asked for, but it comes close.

I hope I've succeeded in attaching File Snapshot.dcf in a manner such that it can be downloaded.

If so, dragging it to a toolbar in customize mode will create a button which will make copies of selected files named similarly to original name_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.original extension.
File Snapshot .dcf (453 Bytes)

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Thinking about this a little more, I realize that the original poster wanted to modify the behavior of the standard copy function so may or may not be interested in a solution that involves an additional toolbar button and/or hotkey.