Rename File
Greetings,
Is it possible to rename a file while it is open in Photoshop? I use an action when closing/saving that saves the file in 3 different sizes/formats and it would be great if I could name the file just prior to saving.
Thanks
David
Your goung about it the hard way. Do this instead. Create a simple action or actions that process the image the way or ways you want them processed. The actions should not resize or save image they should just process the image the way you want them processed. Once you have these actions. Download and install the Image Processor Pro plug-in script into your Photoshop version CS5, CS6, CC. from Russell Browns web site. Then use menu File>Automate>Image Processor Pro. Set the Image Processor Pro dialog to process your image files and save all the output files you want with the sizes and names you want. Have the Image process include you action or actions in its process.
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cls
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activate
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Thank you for any help.
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title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
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Well isnt' that something?... isn't that nice? Windows is able to display these files, but it doesn't allow me to open them and it certainly doesn't like me to rename them. So why is it whining about it then, when I'm trying to help? It says "try a different
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in Server editions of Windows.
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It goes further than that. At first glance, this KB article also seems to offer a solution to this exact problem, with examples as shown below.
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I checked these values in charmap.exe and they are correct. Except for 2D not being a "dash", it's rather a hyphen ("hyphen minus" to be exact), but these two have pretty much the same appearance and they get interchanged a lot, I'm sure
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Then there's this registry key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Server For NFS\CurrentVersion\Mapping
Well, of course, I don't have Server for NFS. So this is a dead end. Well, actually, it was a dead end from the beginning...
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2. I don't have SFU! Well obviously, I'm on Windows Vista! So that means SUA!
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4. Windows Vista is a client side operating system! Server for NFS is only offered for use with Windows Server systems.
5. Back to square one!
So there you have it. They all lived happy for the rest of their lives...
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If I try to rename them in Windows Explorer I get following message.
The file name you specified is no valid or too long.
Specify a different file name.
Well isnt' that something?... isn't that nice? Windows is able to display these files, but it doesn't allow me to open them and it certainly doesn't like me to rename them. So why is it whining about it then, when I'm trying to help? It says "try a different
file name". Yeah, right! Like I haven't tried that one already! It doesn't matter what file name I input it will never accept it.
So what am I supposed to do now? Ditch Windows and go back to Linux? Surely, Microsoft doesn't like the sound of that. Sure, I could reinstall Linux or run a Linux live system to correct the problem. But what good is Windows then? I might as well switch to
Linux altogether.
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necessary for Windows interoperability with other operating systems (Windows is not the only operating system in the world). But this seems to be very complicated and I can't get my head around it. My brain is in overload. I don't know where to start.
Once there was a...
There's the Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5. The first two versions were based on MKS Toolkit, a package licensed by Microsoft from MKS Inc. The later versions were based on the similar Interix product, after Microsoft purchased the company
that made it.
Then there's the new Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). These are services for UNIX components. They are supposed to have Client for NFS v3 included as well. But the server components from the SFU line is missing (e.g. Server for NFS). These are included
in Server editions of Windows.
Then there's the Microsoft Knowledge Base article
289627: "How to Enable File Name Character Translation". This article seems to describe exactly my situation.
Windows and UNIX operating systems have restrictions on valid characters that can be used in a file name. The list of illegal characters for each operating system, however, is different. For example, a UNIX file name can use a colon (:), but a Windows
file name cannot use a colon (:). If a UNIX user attempts to create a file with a Windows illegal character on a Windows Services for UNIX network file system (NFS) share, the attempt is unsuccessful and the UNIX client computer receives an input or output
error.
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I checked these values in charmap.exe and they are correct. Except for 2D not being a "dash", it's rather a hyphen ("hyphen minus" to be exact), but these two have pretty much the same appearance and they get interchanged a lot, I'm sure
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Then there's this registry key.
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2. I don't have SFU! Well obviously, I'm on Windows Vista! So that means SUA!
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4. Windows Vista is a client side operating system! Server for NFS is only offered for use with Windows Server systems.
5. Back to square one!
So there you have it. They all lived happy for the rest of their lives...
I'm stuck here. Can someone tell me what to do? I mean beyond the obvious option to use Linux to fixa a Windows problem? The NTFS file system itself supports colons in file names. It's Windows that doesn't, and so by default it proclaims it invalid character.
Surely, even a Windows client operating system like Windows Vista should be able to allow the user to at least rename files with invalid characters to something more sensible (from the system point of view) and valid, if not being able to open them as they
are. Just add some crazy voodoo code to it and it will work. If you can make it possible on Windows Server with UNIX user-mode subsystem on NT kernel, then what's stopping you from giving the Windows client system the same benefit?
So what now? Purchase a Windows Server 2012 R2 license, copy my invalid files to a NAS share with NFS on a UNIX or Linux system, and have a go at the Windows registry and Server for NFS? Yeah... you're right, it's probably a bit over the top...
On a second thought... I might as well install Linux again. There are countless situations where Linux has helped me solve problems related to, and more often than not caused by Windows. -
Need a script to do the following... rename files based on folder name...
Hi. Macophile just starting to tread the waters of Applescript, trying to use Automator but don't think it will do what I need.
I have many images stored with-in folders that I would like to extrapolate a given number of characters from the folder name and Add Text to the files within those given folders.
Basically...
Folder name is C00100_Descriptive
Files within folder are just Descriptive_01, Descriptive_02
Would like to make all files within a given folder take the first 7 characters from the folder and Add that text to all files and files within subfolders of that folder to make the resulting files shown as...
C00100Descriptive01
C00100Descriptive02
Along with this I would also like to incorporate into the script, an added step to create Thumbnail jpegs of the image files in a Subfolder under C00100_Descriptive folder.
I can see how to do that in automator but not specifying parameters such as taking a certain number of characters from the folder the file resides in and adding that selected text to the files.
Ideally I would like a droplet or something that I could take a bunch of folders and drop them on the droplet to perform these actions.
Any advice, help or guidance would be really helpful! Thanks in advance.Awesome, you're quite welcome, glad to hear it worked for ya!! Here's another version of the script that will rename the thumb files as jpg...
<pre style="width:630px;height:auto;overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:hidden;"
title="Copy this code and paste it into your Script Editor application.">on run
set theItems to choose folder with multiple selections allowed
open (theItems)
end run
on open (itemList)
repeat with anItem in itemList
set theInfo to info for anItem
--VERIFY THAT THE OPENED ITEM IS A FOLDER
if folder of theInfo and not package folder of theInfo then
--SET PATH TO THE FOLDER
set theFolder to POSIX path of anItem
--GET FIRST PART OF FOLDER NAME
set folderNameStart to do shell script "echo " & ¬
quoted form of (name of theInfo) & "|awk -F'_' '{print $1}'"
--GET ALL FILE NAMES
set fileList to list folder anItem without invisibles
--PROCEED IF FOLDER NOT EMPTY
if fileList is not {} then
--SET PATH TO THUMBNAIL FOLDER
set thumbFolder to theFolder & "_thumbs/"
--CREATE FOLDER IF IT DOESN'T ALREADY EXIST
try
do shell script "mkdir " & quoted form of thumbFolder
end try
--PROCESS FILES
repeat with fileName in fileList
--SET PATH TO CURRENT FILE
set oldFile to theFolder & fileName
--PROCEED IF FILE IS NOT A FOLDER
set oldFileInfo to info for POSIX file oldFile
if not folder of oldFileInfo then
--SET NEW FILE AND THUMB FILE PATHS
set newFileName to folderNameStart & "_" & fileName
set newFile to theFolder & newFileName
set theExt to name extension of oldFileInfo
set thumbName to text 1 through -((length of theExt) + 1) of newFileName & "jpg"
set thumbFile to thumbFolder & "thumb_" & thumbName
--RENAME FILE
do shell script "mv " & quoted form of oldFile & space & ¬
quoted form of newFile
--CREATE THUMBNAIL
--REPLACE '128' WITH MAX HEIGHT OR WIDTH OF THUMB
try
do shell script "sips -s format jpeg -s dpiHeight 72 -s dpiWidth 72 -Z 128 " & ¬
quoted form of newFile & " --out " & quoted form of thumbFile
end try
end if
end repeat
end if
end if
end repeat
end open</pre> -
Please advise how to custom batch rename files with Aperture 3 in the following format: IMG_0023.cr2 to Smith_120816_0023.cr2? I cannot find a way to structure the date in Aperture as such (YYMMDD), as well as extract only the camera file (0023, for example). Adobe Bridge CS5 can do this, but NONE of the Adobe software is retina optimized, and is terrible to look at.
In Aperture you are limited to renaming files by the entries in the File Naming preset window.
At what point are you looking to rename, import or export? It might be possible to do what you are looking to do external to Aperture either via a script or other software.
regards
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