David Glasgow wrote:
I am looking for a quick and dirty method for walking a directory and
finding files that have been renamed by the user. I don't need to
find them all, just as many as possible. The folders are likely to
originally contain matching stems and progressive numbers pjf017.jpg,
pjf018 .jpg, pfj019 .jpg etc. etc, with the user renamed files
standing out completely arbitrarily by not following the pattern .
At the moment I do this using the eyeball test, which is remarkably
quick and efficient but very very very boring because there are often
thousands of files to scan. One approach I thought of is to
progressively filter the folders' contents by nibbling a character off
the end of the first filename. If it is completely unique (and
possibly therefore renamed), nothing will happen. However if 9 other
files disappear, it was a name representative of progressive pattern.
Nibble another character, and so on until it is gone, and any
filenames left over didn't fit the dominant pattern in the folder.
Yes? No? . Any other suggestions?
I'd try to exploit the fact that such file names usually follow a
pattern of
<prefix><number>.<suffix>
So the *really* quick and dirty method uses that, and also simply
assumes that the <number> part will be 4 digits (true for most cameras) ...
(beware typos - not tested)
set the itemDel to "."
repeat for each line f in the files
if char -4 to -1 of (item 1 to -2 of f) is not a number then put f &
CR after theChangedList
end repeat
Obviously, there are less quick, and less dirty, variants that actually
check the prefix is used multiple times - but for me, this would be good
enough.
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