Prevent Duplicates causing filename issues

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Prevent Duplicates causing filename issues

Postby bigi » Wed Feb 11, 2026 2:57 am

I use the Prevent duplicates option as i have a lot of files which are sometimes the exact same name and i need to keep them both (one might be WAV, one FLAC, One MP3 for example).

This normally results in BRU during a rename r formatting operation adding _1 or _2 etc to the end of the filename. This falls over if there is a . elsewhere in the name! In this case, it seems to find the first . in the string and add the _1/_2 to that, not the end of the string:

Airglobe - Aurora Rising (2RU085) [WEB] (2026) >> Airglobe - Aurora Rising (2RU085) [WEB] (2026)_1
Airglobe - Aurora Rising (2RU085) [WEB] (2026) >> Airglobe - Aurora Rising (2RU085) [WEB] (2026)_2 << This works Great

T.O.M. - Dreamstate Protocol (PTN169) [WEB] (2026) >> T.O.M_1. - Dreamstate Protocol (PTN169) [WEB] (2026)
T.O.M. - Dreamstate Protocol (PTN169) [WEB] (2026) >> T.O.M_2. - Dreamstate Protocol (PTN169) [WEB] (2026) << This not so Great!

Can the logic on this be changed to ensure it always appends the end of the string instead of the first full stop?
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Re: Prevent Duplicates causing filename issues

Postby Admin » Wed Feb 11, 2026 4:29 am

Hi, do these files have a file extension?
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Re: Prevent Duplicates causing filename issues

Postby bigi » Wed Feb 11, 2026 12:26 pm

Hi

Yes they always do, either mp3, flac, m4a, wav or wv.
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