Import Rename Pairs keeps deleting text after dots.

[bernie9]

I have some files that I'm using import rename to rename and it keeps missing off the end of the name after a dot (or full stop or period, whatever you can it)

For example I have an entry to name a file from like this

Phil.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 01 Coulson.jpg

yet BRU misses out everything after the last dot on S.H.I.E.L.D. and the file ends up as
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.jpg

Any help appreciated thanks

[Admin]

Hi, what version of BRU are you using?

[bernie9]

3.4.4.0 pretty sure I'm up to date.

[Admin]

Please try the new version 4 if you can. thank you

[bernie9]

Thank you very much for helping
I have updated and now this is the problem. BRU will now rename as expected unless I enter an extension (11), BRU clearly it thinks everything after a dot is a filetype, even when it is several characters long. Maybe there is a work around for that?

Also, one file returned these symbols instead of three dots

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 03 â?¦And Finally May.jpg

instead of

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 03 ...And Finally May.jpg

(the file I am using for the rename rules is just a windows txt file, so it shouldn't return any special characters)

Thanks again

[Admin]

Can you post a few of the problem lines of the file you are importing in bru?

[bernie9]

Hi sorry fo rthe long pauses between posts, I'm at work.

1 Phil.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 01 Coulson.jpg
2 Skye.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 02 Johnson.jpg
3 Melinda.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 03 Finally... May.jpg

These all process normally now

If I leave off the extensions and enable (11) and manually enter the filetype I get this

1 Phil.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 01 Coulson
2 Skye.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 02 Johnson
3 Melinda.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 03 Finally... May

and the files instead of being -

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 01 Coulson.jpg
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 02 Johnson.jpg
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 03 Finally... May.jpg

become

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.jpg
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 03 Finally..jpg
(skye doesn't rename because the new name already exists, it would be Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.jpg)

I can't seem to replicate the unusual characters on this PC so maybe that was a fluke

[therube]

I can't seem to duplicate, all looks OK on my end?
Extensions not included, & 11:Extensions, I'm "adding" an extension of XXX.
.
(View Image to see in full.)

[bernie9]

ok here's a screenshot of mine with the extension left out and extension (11) filled with XXX

[bernie9]

and is it without (11) filled

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/nh2K58pG/Untitled2.jpg
[/img]

[bernie9]

and is it without (11) filled

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/nh2K58pG/Untitled2.jpg
[/img]

sorry this didn't work

[therube]

Your source names appear to not have (.)'s (nor numbers)?

"Phil jpg" vs. "Phil.jpg"

So if Extensions are not included as Being Part of The File Name,
then is BRU... ignoring the extension in the Rename Pairs file?

But that still wouldn't make sense?
Cause still "Phil" <> "Phil jpg", so it wouldn't (shouldn't match)?
(Correct, they would not match.)

Code: Select all

1 Phil.jpg|Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 01 Coulson.jpg
2 Skye.jpg|Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 02 Johnson.jpg
3 Melinda.jpg|Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 03 Finally... May.jpg


If I change the RenamePairs.txt to:

Code: Select all

Phil JPG|Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 01 Coulson.jpg
Skye JPG|Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 02 Johnson.jpg
Melinda JPG|Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 03 Finally... May.jpg


that will allow a rename, & again, I'm seeing the expected output names.

[bernie9]

Not sure what you mean "no (.) in source.
here is the line from the txt file copy and pasted

1 Phil.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 01 Coulson
2 Skye.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 02 Johnson
3 Melinda.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 03 Finally ...May

The files themselves are called "1 Phil", "2 Skye" etc in the windows folder because I have windows set to hide extensions in folders, and when I add the files to BRU I am just drag and dropping them so the filename is populated by BRU itself.

If the filenames didn't match, they wouldn't even be picked up would they? Nothing would match if they were wrong, but you can see something happens, even if its something unintended.

As I said, I think BRU is assuming everything after the last dot (.) is extension, so when I enter an extension it ignores whatever the rename file says and puts the new extension there instead.

if you look at the file where it says "03 Finally ...May" BRU does knock of the final dot so it becomes "03 Finally ..ext" (two dots instead of three) it does that with all files but its easy to miss when there's only one dot

[Admin]

Hi, when importing rename pairs into BRU expects all names to have extension specified.

So for a line like this:
1 Phil.jpg | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 01 Coulson
. 01 Coulson is the file extension (for Windows as well)

This line would rename 1 Phil.jpg into Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 01 Coulson

If you then drop the extension or changes it, . 01 Coulson is considered the file extension.

[bernie9]

Thank you for confirming that
So is there a way of ignoring that and make BRU retain all of the filename and just append the ext at the end regardless of what the the filename is?