Re: A couple of issues with file-directory renaming
Gísli Óttarsson <gislio <at> gmail.com>
2006-07-29 10:47:14 GMT
This is a message which I sent after subscribing to your list in June. Apparently it was not received by your system or not distributed to your list.
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I am currently using
EasyTAG
1.99.11 from Ubuntu 6.06. My goal was to rename >10000 files, based
on the immaculate tags contained in the files, thus coordinating file names and
organizing them into directories.
Two issues prevented this from being a smooth operation.
1) Occasionally EasyTAG
encounters two copies of a song which happily coexisted in separate
directories before, but will now find themselves sharing a single name
in the same directory. EasyTAG
is justifiably puzzled by this and pops up an Error dialog box offering
one to skip the operation. This is counterproductive, because it
requires the user to babysit the file renaming operation. It would be
better if EasyTAG adopted
the convention that when it is asked to create a file with a name where
a file already exists, it would simply add a (2) or a _2 at the end of the file name, and
continue.
2) The second problem seems to be a bug. Frequently EasyTAG
issues an error message "Can't remove old directory <some directory
name> (Permission denied)". As far as I can tell, this occurs under
the following circumstances: My disk contains multiple instances of
Artist/Album-1, Artist/Album-2, ... which EasyTAG
processes in order, renaming the files and moving them to a new
location. Once all the files from the directory have been removed, EasyTAG
removes the directory, which is great. However, it seems that once the
last Album has been processed, the Album and Artist directory deletion
either occurs in the wrong sequence or is attempted twice. Either way,
the error message pertains to Artist/Album_last. As in the case of
issue 1), the fact that the process is frequently stopped by these
error messages prevents the automatic processing of a large number of
files. After analysing this problem a circumvention trick occurred to me. Basically, I realized that EasyTAG
would not attempt to remove a directory unless it had successfully
moved all the files from the directory. Thus, I decided to add a
non-music file to each of the directories which EasyTAG would be processing:
$ find . -type d -exec touch {}/foo \;
This had the desired effect, because EasyTAG ran uninterrupted for the several hours it required to complete the renaming task.
Thank you very much for EasyTAG.
Best regards.
Gísli
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