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File Renamer that can limit to 16 characters ?

I have to rename 94.586 drum sample files in 3,303 folders to put them on a HD in my MPC2500 drum machine/sample. The reason is because the MPC OS can handle only 16 character file (and folder) names. I have a few file rename apps that can batch rename files, but they don't have a feature to limit to 16 characters. If anyone can suggest me some app that can do it I appreciate it.

File Renamer that can limit to 16 characters ?

Reply #1 –
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File Renamer that can limit to 16 characters ?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: dunego on
I have to rename 94.586 drum sample files in 3,303 folders
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If anyone can suggest me some app that can do it I appreciate it.


  Which operating system are you using?
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File Renamer that can limit to 16 characters ?

Reply #4 –
^ Good question.

Renamer (Windows) with the attached preset would truncate the file name down to 14 characters, and then add an index to any duplicate filenames.  This assume that there will be no more than 99 duplicate filenames once they've been truncated to 14 characters.

Of course, if you are happy for the files to just be named sequentially then Renamer - or numerous other applications - could also do that.  This way the filename may still be of some use though.

If you're familiar with Pascal (I'm not) you could write a rule that used the full 16 characters and only replaced the minimum with a sequential number if required.

Edit: had to replace codebox with attachment as it was screwing up the page.
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File Renamer that can limit to 16 characters ?

Reply #5 –
Synthetic Soul makes a good point about dups. So if you're on Windows, then Bulk Rename Utility can reduce to 12 chars and add a 4 digit unique number [numbering 10] to the end of the file to avoid that also.

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File Renamer that can limit to 16 characters ?

Reply #6 –
Thanx for the responses. I'm using windows XP SP3 on my DAW computer.

I´ll try out Carpman´s and Synthetic Soul´s suggestions.

The problem is that I wanna loose the less possible of the file name so I can recognize what it means. I´m seeing that at least for the folders I´ll probably have to do it manually on a few of them, or I´ll not recognize what it means. For example, let´s say I got this folders:

HD FutureSounds Kicks Volume 1
HD FutureSounds Claps Volume 1

So the result with Synthetic Soul´s patterns would be:

HD FutureSound01
HD FutureSound02

Is there any way to do exceptions like:

Allways keep essential words like: kick, kicks, snare, snares ?



I think at least with some folders I'll have to do it manually.

File Renamer that can limit to 16 characters ?

Reply #7 –
In the example given I'd suggest removing "HD FutureSounds " first.  Renamer lets you run multiple rules, so this could be #1.

As for keeping words intelligently... maybe with regular expressions, no doubt if you know Pascal.
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