i keep my music synced between a mac and a windows pc, so i pretty much just remove all punctuation, but what i’m wondering is if when it corrects file and subfolder names, if there is a way to remove the punctuation there and leave it in the tags?
thanks.
Yes, use Preferences/File and Folder Correct/Replace ‘From’ Character with ‘To’ Character ,and specify the characters you want to replace/remove
ahhh, cool i’ll give it a try, thanks
ok, that doesn’t help because i am forced to replace the character with another, where i just want to remove it, for instance, what am i going to replace a ? with, why can’t it just be removed?
You could use a ’ ’ but yes you are right it doesnt let you jut remove a character, I will add that the to the todo list.
But why do you want to remove the characters , they should not be invalid for the filesystem, (invalid characters already get removed automatically). By removing them aren’t yo making your filenames less readable ?
I personally prefer to normalize all my file names by replacing all punctuation and white space with an underscore or other regular character. This makes it much easier to batch manipulate files (I’m using Linux)
“Readable” file names are of little value since access to my collection for purposes of browsing and searching are through some tag based interface.
Being able - through Jaikoz - to perform this through auto correction would be very nice. Right now I have to use another tool.
Just my 2 cents.
-steve
[quote=snesbitt]I personally prefer to normalize all my file names by replacing all punctuation and white space with an underscore or other regular character. This makes it much easier to batch manipulate files (I’m using Linux)
“Readable” file names are of little value since access to my collection for purposes of browsing and searching are through some tag based interface.
Being able - through Jaikoz - to perform this through auto correction would be very nice. Right now I have to use another tool.
Just my 2 cents.
-steve[/quote]
Steve, you could use the method described above, adding a value mapping for each punctuation char to the ‘_’ char.
Paul:
Let me give it a try.
Thx!
-steve
You could use a ’ ’ but yes you are right it doesnt let you jut remove a character, I will add that the to the todo list.
But why do you want to remove the characters , they should not be invalid for the filesystem, (invalid characters already get removed automatically). By removing them aren’t yo making your filenames less readable ? [/quote]
because i keep my itunes library synced between 2 machines, 1 is windows 1 is snow leopard, so i can’t use ? in the naming on windows
Right I see, BTW if you were running Jaikoz on the WIndows machine then Jaikoz would remove the question marks, but I guess thats not a solution for you.
You can also use Edit/Find and Replace if its just question marks you want to remove.
well, i want it to remove all invalid characters from file and folder names for any OS, but leave them in the tags
When you use Edit/Find and Replace you can specify to only make chnages for particular column. so you would just have to run it twice, once for subfolder and once for filename column
ok, but the logic is already built into jaikoz right? for instance i don’t know what characters are allowed on each platform, but the software does and only applies to the platform it is on, is there a way to do it for any platform? or is this something that could be added in the future or is it just too complicated because it’s using something built into the OS?
Its built into Jaikoz that if you are running on OSX it won’t let you create filenames that are invalid on OSX, but you want it to disallow filenames that are invalid on Windows, right ?
I can see why you want this, but its very much an edge case isn’t it ?