Ticket #868 (new defect)

Opened 2 months ago

Last modified 3 weeks ago

The renaming feature puts a number at the end before the extension. In sequentially ordered downloads this is annoying

Reported by: Ted Assigned to:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: Preferences Version: ---
Keywords: Cc:
Operating System: All

Description

The renaming feature puts a number at the end before the extension (When I need to add multi-index downloads). In sequentially ordered downloads with identical filenames (image or video filenames especially), this is annoying; because it mixes together the files of various photo or video sets instead of listing them sequentially and subsorting them properly.

I think that user should be able to place a new renaming mask maybe *seq* for sequence. This mask is a number from 1 to however many files are requested in the download set is. Say if the set has > 9 files then it begins with 01. If the set is > 99 then it begins with 001, etc., so that 10 wont be sequentially ordered before 2 in the picture viewer.

So,

*num*_*name*.*ext*

becomes:

*num*_*seq*_*name*.*ext*

Change History

2008-09-26 01:08:07 changed by Knossus

* I agree with Ted. The *num* renaming mask is useful to add a sequential number to files downloaded between downloading sessions (i.e. every time you click DownThemAll, the files within that session will have the same number and only increment the next time you click DownThemAll), but a feature is needed for adding a sequential number for every file within that session.

* Please note that this have already been mentioned, 8 months ago (see ticket #484)

* As the user cricketbird says in his ticket #484,

This way files that have random names can be ordered in the order they were arranged on the webpage.

* In my opinion this feature should have high priority.

(follow-up: ↓ 3 ) 2008-11-01 02:24:40 changed by johnlgalt

I added a remark to ticket #484 re: this feature and it's limitations, and what *I* would like to see. Of course, my wish offers a user a small workaround for numbering individual sets, in that the user would have to use filters to select only certain types of files first, and then the numbering scheme would apply to that set only - but my wish also extends to the user being able to pick what the starting number should be, as well....

(in reply to: ↑ 2 ) 2008-11-01 02:26:10 changed by johnlgalt

Replying to johnlgalt:

I added a remark to ticket #484 re: this feature and it's limitations, and what *I* would like to see. Of course, my wish offers a user a small workaround for numbering individual sets, in that the user would have to use filters to select only certain types of files first, and then the numbering scheme would apply to that set only - but my wish also extends to the user being able to pick what the starting number should be, as well....

And, I might add that I am using the nightly 1.1b1pre.20081030.1121 build in my tests....