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renaming all my source files

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miltk:
over the years the naming and thus the order on my source files(as i mentioned earlier they are image files for my work) have gotten messy. files i started out naming in one way when i first used tp5,,,to a file system i started naming to make more sense of everything,,,to misnamed files.

so i decided to rename all of them and clean up everything. so i used a computer i never use to create a test tp5 to make sure it would work.

since i wanted to simply rename the files but keep the galleries and assigned galleries intact as well as whatever keywords have been created, i thought i had to rename them in tp5. i thought if i renamed the files in windows things would get messed up.

well that didn't happen. i hilited all the files in the source folder, and while the option was there, i got an error message saying i could not rename

was my thinking correct and if so why did i get the error message?

Daan van Rooijen:

--- Quote from: miltk on 2023-11-04 16:15:00 ---since i wanted to simply rename the files but keep the galleries and assigned galleries intact as well as whatever keywords have been created, i thought i had to rename them in tp5. i thought if i renamed the files in windows things would get messed up.
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Correct!


--- Quote ---well that didn't happen. i hilited all the files in the source folder, and while the option was there, i got an error message saying i could not rename
--- End quote ---

Is that all that it said? I guess that might happen if some of the files are read-only or otherwise write-protected.

miltk:

--- Quote from: Daan van Rooijen on 2023-11-04 17:06:07 ---
--- Quote from: miltk on 2023-11-04 16:15:00 ---since i wanted to simply rename the files but keep the galleries and assigned galleries intact as well as whatever keywords have been created, i thought i had to rename them in tp5. i thought if i renamed the files in windows things would get messed up.
--- End quote ---

Correct!


--- Quote ---well that didn't happen. i hilited all the files in the source folder, and while the option was there, i got an error message saying i could not rename
--- End quote ---

Is that all that it said? I guess that might happen if some of the files are read-only or otherwise write-protected.

--- End quote ---

i will take a snapshot of the error message...my mistake for forgetting

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