Vincent said:
Hi all,
I have to download a lot of single page .pdf files, all one page long;
they have sometimes the same name, others have long, quite
uncomprensible ones. But they all are pages from a single document.
What I would like to have is a utility (better a no install one) that,
when started, can take the place of the standard Windows "save as", and
that understands that if I am saving a pdf, no means what name it have,
in an empty folder, must save it as 001.pdf, if the folder already
contains a 001.pdf, knows that the file I'm saving now must have the
name 002.pdf, and so on.
I hope I have expressed myself well; English is not my mother language.
sodding deep fried wombles
why do NESBies always have to explain, especially when they are generally
less slack have better eyesight and are less lysdecix than me?
lredd dlsck <- thats what it came out as first
(NESB - Non English Speaking Background )
Does a program like I have descibed above exists?
Yes, at least one
but it breaks too easily and you cannot have it.
The save as is a standard dialog and is used for other things
by windows, some uses don't seem to be documented
Things that hook the dialog tend to either interfere
or not work with different versions of windows.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=32770+dialog&meta=
An external application to monitor any save as popping up will not be in the
process space, it then does not have direct knowledge of what the
application believes is the current directory. It can be found but
not in a particularly standard way, this is fragile.
Another way is to have a monitor on one directory which automagically
renames
all files dropped or created in it. After the save rather than in the save,
then bulk rename afterwards.
Right now you want something to autoincrement and autoname files,
but do you want something that may inadvertently rename files
you dont want incremented?..another problem is the way the save as dialog
may interpret fields and directories if the user clicks on save while it is
being updated,
you files could end up not where you expect.
The best option I have is a panel popup when save as is showing,
the user knows they aren't doing anything with the dialog, or
causing anything else to do so, so they can now safely press the
'increment filename' button.
The above isn't necessarily accurate and may be ignoring something
simple but not revealed to me in a quick search. I would really like
to know if it is wrong, or find a reliable alternative.
Renaming many files can be a pain, on the other hand if
a set of files aren't worth the time to rename they probably aren't
really worth the time to get and store. Computers and DVD-r make
it to too easy to be a packrat.
With high speed internet a link and a few pertinent words in a small note
may be more appropriate. Catch-22, if you have the speed to
get bulk data to store, you don't need to store it
If there was enough interest I could maybe look at and
polish up what I have. Otherwise it will remain at priority #32770
right behind world domination and finding a decent cup of hot tea.
