Rename scripts can return true from OnGetNewName() to prevent an item from being renamed.
Can this also be achieved outside a script? Could the Evaluator send a message that instructs the Advanced Renamer/Rename command to skip an item?
Where would it send it from? Not sure I understand.
Let's say I want to move files if they contain a year in their names:
Now, suppose I don't want to move files that lack a year in their names.
Instead of labeling them as "no year", the Evaluator could send a special flag instructing Rename to skip file.txt.
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Just realized: Returning any illegal character (like <>) stops Rename - quite elegantly, without error messages 
However, there's no indicator in the file list.
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Point well taken.
I know this was only a dummy rename to test a hypothesis, but I worked on it some too.
Attempting to keep with the spirit of this, I found this.
We've added this for the next update.
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