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is there an undo for naming files?

Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 12:21 pm
by islander
Hi, I'm new to XnView MP and trying to organise all my images into a better filing system. I made a mistake in the naming of a few files and wonder if the very original names from the camera can be rcovered with an undo rename? It's not a disater but would like to have them all named the same. My workflow and mistake:
1: culled all unwanted images
2: organised folders into Pictures/Year/Date-Event/Date-Event-Camera File.jpeg,raw,etc ({Folder name}_{Filename})
So far all as expected.......
3: added more images to Date-Event folder and then renamed all via select all-edit-rename-{Folder name}_{Filename}, didn't notice the duplicating of information in the image name from the already named files!
4: realized my mistake and renamed but lost camera file name

any help appreciated,

ta.

Re: is there an undo for naming files?

Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 2:59 pm
by xnview
no sorry, there is no way

Re: is there an undo for naming files?

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 11:34 pm
by laurent45654
It's somewhat scary that there's no undo for batch rename operations, given the damage a messed up operation can do.

At a technical level, it's not even difficult to allow undo (I implemented it in a different app) - just keep somewhere the list of files that were renamed and their new name, and use that to undo. It doesn't even need to be anything fancy - just the chance to undo the last batch operation only could save a lot of troubles.