6/23/2023 0 Comments Name mangler sequence md5![]() ![]() You can remove the gray text, or replace it with something that makes more sense to you. ![]() Note that the gray text above is ignored by Advanced mode any text that’s not part of a command is considered a comment. With these commands entered in the Advanced section, the preview shows that the sequence numbers will now reset on each change of parent folder. Starting fresh, set the rename mode to Advanced, and enter this text: ] While there’s no way to work around this in Name Mangler’s normal modes, the sequence identifier in Advanced mode was designed to handle cases just like this. While this works, the problem is that the sequence numbers keep increasing, even as the renaming action moves from folder to folder-the first image in the “set2” folder will start at 06, even though it’s the first image in the folder. The completed two-step action would look like this: (It also needs to include a prefix, to attach the name built with the Compose action.) The second step will use the Sequence action to add the sequence number to the end of the filename. The first step will use the Compose action, to completely remove the old name, and replace it with what I want-in this case, I’d use Holiday_Lights_. One way to do this is to use a simple two-step action in Name Mangler 3. I’d like to rename the photos to indicate that they’re holiday light photos, and use sequence numbers to differentiate them.įor purposes of this example, the desired name would be “Holiday_Lights_nn,” where “nn” is the sequence number. Hopefully that’s a bit clearer…and here’s a real-world example of how you can put sequence identifiers to use to simplify your renaming tasks.Īt right is a collection of photos I took of holiday light displays, divided into three separate “setN” folders (one for each house that I shot). All files that share a sequence identifier will be treated as part of the same sequence. The sequence identifier, if included, is used to group files together (by a common criteria) for sequencing. But for now, here’s a hopefully-clearer description: ![]() The sequence identifier, if included, indicates that sequence indexes are only inferred from the number of files that share the same identifier, as opposed to the overall number of files to be renamed.Ĭlear as mud, right? That’s entirely my fault, and I’ll try to come up with better wording in a future update. The help file has this to say about the sequence identifier: One of the most powerful of these hidden gems is the “sequence identifier” parameter for the sequence action. This is a great change for everyone, and has greatly reduced the need to use Advanced mode.īut Name Mangler 3’s Advanced mode still has a few tricks that you can’t do using the “normal” renaming options. In prior versions of Name Mangler, you’d need to use Advanced mode, or run multiple repeated single tasks, to handle multi-step renaming tasks. Instead of being limited to just one renaming step, you can add many steps to one renaming task. One of the main features in Name Mangler 3 is multi-step renaming. ![]()
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