Hi On Friday 26 June 2009 at 12:59:50 PM, in <mid:[email protected]>, Privateofcourse wrote:
> Is there any way to manually define how TB! increments > the names of extracted attachments? Not that I'm aware of. > I've got filters set up for voicemail, FAX, and SMS > which move these incoming messages to their respective > TB! folders and then extract their attachments to > corresponding folders on my hard drive. It is bugging > me though as the files don't logically increment. > I archive my voicemail each month and so the > incrementation process begins all over again. Here's > the list of the incremented voicemail files this > month: > archived convert.exe msg0000(1).WAV msg0000(2).WAV > msg0000(3).WAV msg0000(4).WAV msg0000(5).WAV > msg0000(6).WAV msg0000(7).WAV msg0000(8).WAV > msg0000(9).WAV msg0000(10).WAV msg0000(11).WAV > msg0000(12).WAV msg0000(13).WAV msg0000(14).WAV > msg0000(15).WAV msg0000.WAV msg0001(1).WAV > msg0001(2).WAV msg0001(3).WAV msg0001(4).WAV [...] > This is not useful in any respect. It may not be useful but it /is/ logical. You would appear for some reason to have received 16 file attachments this month called msg0000.wav. After the first one, the rest have been saved as msg0000(1).msg to msg0000(15).msg. A list of files in order of created time/date would be more useful. > Anyone got any tips or suggestions? Maybe not restarting the numbering each month when you archive? Or is it possible to set up whatever is emailing you these attachments to give them more meaningful names? E.g. datetime.wav means more than msg0001.wav Perhaps use an external application and/or a batch file to rename the files as you wish once extracted to their corresponding folders on your hard drive. (Maybe this could be called from your filter after the "extract attachments" action using a "run external" action?) -- Best regards, MFPA Don't be silly, it's all "make believe" anyway Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
