Batch Rename - Partially Mixed Case / Generic Text Replace

[Dreamer]

Perhapse an option "[x] Case sensitive" might make sense, too.

I think, 'Case sensitive' should be disabled by default and option to enable/disable it would be useful just for few users and is not needed.

For example:
- original name is "Grand Theft Auto San Andreas 01.jpg"
- you need to replace "Grand Theft Auto" with "GTA"
- it would be easier type "grand theft auto" than "Grand Theft Auto"
- also users will expect that 'Case sensitive' is disabled
- it might be confusing for some users (of course not for us )

[Lostclown]

The problem here is to decide what is useful for many users and what is useful for a few or only a single user.

Yes and I think it would be very useful for many users, why you think it doesn't?

I believe that Pierre is right that generic replace is more useful than "replace underscore with spaces".
And it is good that is what he is implementing as it seems to solve all the requirements requested in this thread.
It also at the same time keeps things simple and useful, and users happy

I feel that batch rename is somewhat an extra feature in XnView and should be relatively simple.
If many option would be added to it, it could get complicated to develop and maintain.
And I was simply worried this could slow down development on features I find more important in
an image tool. But then, that is probably just me being a little selfish

Look at "Insert>>" button, how many features there are, i don't think one more feature ("Generic replace") would be confusing, there is enough space there, e.g. beside "Start/Step"

The difference in my opinion is that these are image specific rename options that are usually
not available in special rename tools that don't have a focus on images.
It is less likely to be found elsewhere and should therefore absolutely be in XnView.

I am sure Pierre has and will make the right decisions on XnView for us the users!

Regards,
Lostclown

P.S. Hope there are not as many But's in this post

[Lostclown]

Perhapse an option "[x] Case sensitive" might make sense, too.

I think, 'Case sensitive' should be disabled by default and option to enable/disable it would be useful just for few users and is not needed.

I agree that "Case sensitive" should be disable by default if included.
If it is useful for few or many users is however difficult to tell.

Warning: I am gonna "but" you again

But as a general rule of thumb a simple and powerful feature is better than a very specialized feature
as it can be used in many ways and is therefore more likely to be useful to many people.
A good example of this is that the generic replace feature is more useful than the original
idea of the "Replace underscore with spaces" feature.
Your good but imperfect idea was lead to a much better one through discussion

Best regards,
Lostclown

[Dreamer]

Another idea - submenu for Replace/With feature: (maybe it's not needed, maybe it would be useful ??)

- blank
- space
- underscore '_'
- 'Image'
- ... ?

Edit: Another rename of this topic from "Batch Rename - Partially Mixed Case/Convert _ to space" to "Batch Rename - Partially Mixed Case / Generic Text Replace"

[Dreamer]

Added in 1.80, thanks Pierre, just minor...

Please change (or add new) option "First letters uppercase" - now just name is affected, could change also extension case to lowercase?

E.g.:

Old filename - "GRAND THEFT AUTO 001.JPG"
New filename in 1.80 - "Grand Thef Auto 001.JPG"
New filename, I'd like to have - "Grand Thef Auto 001.jpg"

Thanks.

[Dreamer]

Added in 1.80, thanks Pierre, just minor...

Please change (or add new) option "First letters uppercase" - now just name is affected, could change also extension case to lowercase?

E.g.:

Old filename - "GRAND THEFT AUTO 001.JPG"
New filename in 1.80 - "Grand Thef Auto 001.JPG"
New filename, I'd like to have - "Grand Thef Auto 001.jpg"

Thanks.

Any chance for this little improvement in 1.82?

[xnview]

Added in 1.80, thanks Pierre, just minor...

Please change (or add new) option "First letters uppercase" - now just name is affected, could change also extension case to lowercase?

E.g.:

Old filename - "GRAND THEFT AUTO 001.JPG"
New filename in 1.80 - "Grand Thef Auto 001.JPG"
New filename, I'd like to have - "Grand Thef Auto 001.jpg"

Thanks.

Any chance for this little improvement in 1.82?

But you can if you change extension??

[Dreamer]

Added in 1.80, thanks Pierre, just minor...

Please change (or add new) option "First letters uppercase" - now just name is affected, could change also extension case to lowercase?

E.g.:

Old filename - "GRAND THEFT AUTO 001.JPG"
New filename in 1.80 - "Grand Thef Auto 001.JPG"
New filename, I'd like to have - "Grand Thef Auto 001.jpg"

Thanks.

Any chance for this little improvement in 1.82?

But you can if you change extension??

Yes, but only for the same file type and it's not easy to check if all files have same ext. For more file types I must use Batch rename twice.

I think no one wants results like these:
- Image One.Jpg
- Image Two.JPG
- Image Three.jpg

[Dreamer]

It work perfect now, thanks Pierre.

Closed.