1 Reply by apalou21

(6 replies, posted in Evolution requests)

Hello Rémi,

I know it's long time since last post in this thead and I apologie for that. I decided to post here because my new suggestion is linked to the usage described here.
Since my last post, I switched to Linux and was really happy to see Siren also working on that system. The problem I face now is my system language is in english and even if I put Siren in french, %@UXdo{"%B"} gives me the month name in english. It would be great if we can force the language to use with that expression.

Once again thanks for that excellent software and I hope the 3.15 will soon be available ;-)

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2 Reply by apalou21

(11 replies, posted in Bugs and problems)

Hello Rémi,

Do you know the excellent ExifTool by Phil Harvey? It's a tool that can extract about any meta data from a lot of media files.
It can be used as a stand alone tool or as a Perl library. Perhaps could you use it to extract meta data from the files.

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3 Reply by apalou21

(7 replies, posted in Evolution requests)

Hello Rémi,

I just discover this threat with your answer to my last post.

If it's not too late, let me add my  thought about this idea. Your idea just fill the need
I have!
I use Siren to copy my camera's memory card to my hard disk and orginize the
files "on the fly" putting them in the right place. The problem I have is I shoot in RAW
+ JPEG and some time did movies too; so on the memory card I have 3 kinds of file
I want to separate on the hard disk. I now use 3 favorites expressions and 3 file filters.

With the "expression filter" I can manage all of them with only 1 expression! Great.

May I just suggest to add a negation of the expression filter; i.e. [! *.jpg] to match all except
the file pattern. The case from Stefan would be simply written:
    [*.jpg]%Xdo_%f;[! *.jpg]%dc_%f

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4 Reply by apalou21

(6 replies, posted in Evolution requests)

Hello Rémi,

Thanks for your answer. I was able to do it with adjunction of the text file, but found it
less elegant ;-) Your solution in "one pass" is really interesting and tend me to propose
you to implement a conditional expression.

Thanks again and I hope you will continue to develop this great software.

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5 Reply by apalou21

(6 replies, posted in Evolution requests)

Oups, looks like posts are limited in size.

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%Xdo{"%m"}%@UXdo{"%B"} did the job.
Unfortunatelly I got pictures without EXIF date, but with a file name like 20150227_blabla.jpg

I tried %b(1,8){"%m"}%@Ub(1,8){"%B"} but it failed (of course date modifiers work only on variables).

Could you implement date modifiers on substring in order the expression here above work?

Thanks

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6 Topic by apalou21

(6 replies, posted in Evolution requests)

Hello,

I'm new to the forum, but I use Siren for quite a long time now. First of all I want to thanks
the author for this excellent file renamer (the best I found).

I use Siren to copy/rename my pictures and normally use the EXIF date to put them in folder
patterns like that:

  basefolder\yyyy\mmMonthName\modified_picture_name

basefolder is a constant string, yyyy is the picture's year and mmMonthName is picture's month
(01January, 02February, ...). The modification on the picture's name is not relevant here.

The tricky part was (for me) to define the mmMonthName; after some tries I found
   %Xdo{

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