Better File Rename 6.1.3 Key
Emmanuelle Riker
Better Rename has long been the file renamer of choice for tens of thousands of professionals, businesses and hobbyists across the world, but that hasn't stopped us from continuing to perfect our product culminating now in the brand-new version 11.
Better Rename's huge array of renaming options is organized into 15 intuitive categories that cover all the text, character, position, conversion and truncation features that you would expect from a great file renamer.
If you have previously saved your settings into a preset, you can rename files by simply dragging them onto the closed application icon. A popup dialog will allow you to choose the preset to be applied.
Better Rename takes file renaming to a new level of sophistication by introducing an advanced 64-bit multi-threaded renaming engine that solves many problems that other file renamers simply leave unaddressed.
The database-backed renaming engine automatically resolves file name conflicts (when several files would share the same name) using a range of configurable parameters. The sequence in which files are renamed is optimized to avoid deadlocks which could occur when the order in which the files are renamed becomes significant.
A Better Finder Rename has long been the file renamer of choice for tens of thousands of professionals, businesses and hobbyists across the world, but that hasn't stopped us from continuing to perfect our product culminating now in the brand-new version 11.
A Better Finder Rename's huge array of renaming options is organized into 15 intuitive categories that cover all the text, character, position, conversion and truncation features that you would expect from a great file renamer.
Finally, version 12 also fully supports timezones embedded into the timestamps and allows you to rename files based on either the local time at the location that your photos were taken, or translate them to your own local timezone.
A Better Finder Rename takes file renaming to a new level of sophistication by introducing an advanced 64-bit multi-threaded renaming engine that solves many problems that other file renamers simply leave unaddressed.
Better File Rename's huge array of renaming options is organized into 10 intuitive categories that cover all the text, character, position, conversion and truncation features that you would expect from a great file renamer.
A Better Finder Rename offers a complete set of renaming options that are organized into 15 categories covering all the text, character, position, conversion and truncation features that you would expect from a file renamer, but it does not stop there. The multi-step renaming feature allows multiple renaming steps to be combined to deal with complex renaming jobs in a single operation. Unlike other tools, A Better Finder Rename allows any number of renaming actions to be combined, re-ordered, copied and deleted.
In "...$1...", with double quotation marks, the shell replaces $1 by the value of its (the shell's) variable, which is empty, before passing the string to rename. So rename only sees [0] and performs the replacement accordingly.
I tend to rename stuff a lot during development since things change and names should better reflect functionality. When I rename something in the editor, it will break the references in scripts if you are using some form of hierarchical reference.
There is the option to make a node use a unique name which makes this a bit less work if you were using the full path references ($UniqueTarget vs $Node/Node/UniqueTarget ), but it still requires a rename in the script and in the editor.
If I've renamed the plan to a simple name, then I can load I can load it and tweak it. When I then upload it as another saved plan it saves with the "from - to" name, which I then immediately change.
I'm not, at this point, inclined to discourage sending things to the queue where it's pretty clear that only the author could provide the additional information. Data from this is still extremely noisy, but posts that went to the helper queue and only received a comment tended to do as well or better than posts that got edited in some samples, provided that they actually belonged there and weren't incomprehensible in addition to needing an edit only the author could provide.
We'll then see how much of a difference this made. I suspect that it's going to be substantially better. We'll then run the outcomes of the posts that went through the queue, and have much cleaner data, since we'll hopefully be much closer to being able to trust the input.
I, lazy boy that I am (feel free to ask my mother), typically take a screenshot, keep its screenshot name, i.e. Screen Shot 2019-11-06 at 4.54.25 PM, and upload as-is. So, the idea of manually renaming every screenshot I take was met with little joy [ed. note: why do we hire such whiny writers?]. My solution? Create some kind of macro that could do the job for me (See "lazy," above) or find software that already exists that could rename thousands of files on the fly.
You can also define how it is that the file is renamed using an Action menu. So, for example, you can choose to add a sequence number to the beginning/end of an existing file name, rename a file completely, or remove an existing sequence number if your files already have them. Each of the action options changes according to a category you've selected. So, if you've selected adding sequence numbers, you'll have options for sequencing. If you choose renaming using Tags, you'll find options for selecting which tags will be added and where the tags will be added. The options seem nearly limitless.
To give you an idea of how simple this application is to use, I've renamed all the files in a folder more than 20 times in the last few minutes. Then, once I was done playing, I renamed them exactly as they need to be for my editor [ed. note: he's such a suck-up].
One of the challenges of renaming files is knowing what the end result will look like before you rename everything. And there's little worse than discovering everything you've renamed isn't named in exactly the way you wanted.
To mitigate these kinds of issues, the right-hand side of A Better Finder Rename's application window provides a preview of exactly how your files will be renamed. Here you see the current names of all the files in your target folder, and as you make changes to your naming scheme, a preview of what the new name will be. Super simple and no mistakes.
First, there are Droplets, which are essentially mini-applications that you can drag a pile of files to and have them renamed according to rules you've set for the Droplet. No worries, the Droplet won't rename all your files without displaying a confirmation window making sure your old and new names are exactly correct.
Second, the latest version of the application offers a new Presets feature. Presets allow you to drag a pile of files to the A Better Finder Rename application icon and, if you've created a preset, a small contextual menu will appear that you can use to select the preset you want to be applied to the files. As with the Droplet, you'll see a file name confirmation window before all your files are renamed.
If you find yourself renaming multiple files at once, or your editor makes you rename images according to some master plan, (ed. Note: Seriously?) there's no question you want to use A Better Finder Rename. It's powerful and simple to use and will make quick work of any kind of file renaming you may have to do.
If you rename a method, it is no longer going to be overloaded. In and of itself, overloading doesn't necessarily make code less readable, however it can make the implementation more difficult to follow if the syntax isn't clear.
In the OPs example, the rename isn't strictly necessary because the method parameters are different, however it does make things a little clearer to name a method more specifically. In the end, it really comes down to the type of interface you wish to present to your users. A decision on whether on not to overload should not be made solely based on your own perception of readability. Overloading methods can for example simplify an API interface and reduce the number of methods that a developer might need to remember, on the other hand, it can obfuscate the interface to a degree which then requires a developer to read the method documentation to understand which form of method to use, whereas having a number of similarly yet descriptively named methods can make it more apparent just be reading a method name as to its purpose.
I'm writing in response to your latest article, to share a tip/trick for ABFR. You can indeed do multiple different rename actions in a single step; click "Show Advanced Sidebar" in the bottom left and then use the plus button to add additional steps. This way you can add a prefix, and then add your aperture setting. I've done a dozen rename steps, which is very powerful since you can see the final output before renaming (and you can use Command + R to initiate renaming from the main window, and then again to confirm all renames in the processing window.)
You can also change a preference in the preferences window to autoclear the queue when renaming is complete; this allows for rapid renaming (especially if you leave multiple steps in the sidebar window, they can be toggled on and off, so you can keep several different rename workflows on standby.)
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