Search and replace date format in filename

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I would like to have a button that changes the first part of a filename from date format 'yyyy-mm-dd' to date format 'yyyy.mm.dd'

I especially do not exactly know how to use wildcards to get my result.

2

Is there also a way to watch a folder from within DirOpus and if there is a file added with the yyyy-mm-dd format it is then automatically converted to the yyyy.mm.dd format? Maybe this could be a quite complex task, if possible at all

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Lots of ways you can do that. Using regular expressions is probably best if you need it to work no matter where the dates appear in each name.

Mode: Regular Expressions + Find and Replace
Old name: (\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)
New name: \1.\2.\3

4

Opus isn't intended to be a folder-monitoring background-automation tool. But you could make a system-wide hotkey which processes everything in a specified folder on-demand if you wanted.

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5

Thank you very much for helping! Sorry for 2nd question...!