[gcmd-dev] Advanced renaming - recursive mode

[Michael]

(Do i really need to write any more ? ;)

Maybe one would wonder where that would be useful at all.
Here's my 'production' example case.

I use hardlinks e.g. for collection folders dedicated to speed up creating 
slide presentations or websites. Without touching the originals which are 
already sorted after date and location.
Or generally, hardlinking saves diskspace with file redundancy when using 
filesystem like a  database (which is after all what it's meant to be). 
I deal with about 10G (about 10,000 files)  of still images by now and store 3 
date versions of full backup on external USB smart drive. It's not really about 
disk space but merely about speed -  USB 2.0 is damm slow with that. It's the 
second backup system, the first one is on inbuilt second HD which is much 
faster. But i need the external drive on travels so i don't need to transfer 
stuff to my laptop. Firewire was no option - too expensive :|

Now symlinking would not work correctly on external drives of course.
I could hardcopy them. But i already symlinks for folders or files i don't want 
to backup.
For example, since i'm not very experienced in configuring Samba servers, 
there's a dedicated Samba tree of symlink folders - it was the easiest way to 
assure there's no outbreak, and to have the most simple overview, and easy 
adding/removing stuff. 

In case i like to delete a file completely i can see by filename where it was 
placed originally, 
because i use to mark symlinks with a trailing "=" and hardlinks with trailing 
"==".

Sometimes i batch a set of resampled (rescaled/enhanced) versions as real 
copies.
They are placed in another dedicated folder tree. 
That's the situation where i need to rename the files recursively: Append some 
generic marker like 'rmx' for remixed, and remove any trailing "=". I could do 
that in the batch processing, of course.
But OTOH it's nearly already there, in gcmd advrename...we would just need the 
recursive mode switch button =)

I'm sure you can find more usage cases, easily.


 m°