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great_compressor_pain

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Need Help with renaming thousands of files
« on: November 05, 2009, 08:20:29 AM »
pls help me im Average in Batch Processing...

i have may files to rename
Suppose if my files are in E:\test batch\test1.txt,test2.txt.....
which r of nearly 10mb in size


& i want to replace it with another test1.txt,test2.txt.....
which r of 2kb 's in size

there r nearly hundreds of files

so what should b the command lines?????????

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    Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
    « Reply #1 on: November 05, 2009, 08:46:07 AM »
    What is the process you are using now to compress the files and then replace the originals? There should be a switch to replace the files as they are created.

    billrich

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    Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
    « Reply #2 on: November 05, 2009, 10:23:11 AM »
    Great_Compressor_Pain  wrote:
     
    "I have may files to rename.
    Suppose if my files are in E:\test batch\test1.txt,test2.txt.....
    which are  nearly 10mb in size

    I want to replace it with another test1.txt,test2.txt.....
    which are nearly  2kb 's in size.

    There are nearly hundreds of files."

    I wonder how the  "Great_Compressor_Pain"  can go from 10Meg to 2k  without compression?


    « Last Edit: November 06, 2009, 11:45:19 AM by billrich »

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    Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
    « Reply #3 on: November 05, 2009, 01:29:55 PM »
    Am i missing the connection here between compressing and renaming files...or is it a Full Moon ? ?
    " Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. "

    wbrost



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      Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
      « Reply #4 on: November 06, 2009, 06:17:37 AM »

      I wonder how the  "Great_Compressor_Pain"  can go from 10Meg to 2k  without compression?

      he has completed the compression or he would not know the file size with compression. What I think he was/is asking for is how to replace the original files with the compressed versions.

      @great_compressor_pain

      What compression utility are you utilizing? There should be switches or commands to replace files as they are compressed. We will need to know the program before we can give you the available switches or commands.

      billrich

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      Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
      « Reply #5 on: November 06, 2009, 04:30:47 PM »

      I have may files to rename
      Suppose if my files are in E:\test batch\test1.txt,test2.txt.....
      which are nearly 10mb in size


      & I want to replace it with another test1.txt,test2.txt.....
      which are of 2kb 's in size

      There are hundreds of files.

      So what should b the command lines be?


      You may rename as you copy with the following code by Greg:
      The destination string must include a counter and the file extention:

      Code: [Select]
      @echo off
      setlocal enabledelayedexpansion


      set /a j=0
      dir /B  /s  *.mod  >  mod.txt

      for /f "delims=" %%a in (mod.txt) do (

      set /a j+=1



      copy "%%a" E:\tmp\!j!.mod
      )

      reference:

      http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,94198.msg637309.html#msg637309
      « Last Edit: November 06, 2009, 05:59:21 PM by billrich »

      great_compressor_pain

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      Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
      « Reply #6 on: November 07, 2009, 09:55:49 AM »
      Means...
      If there is a file named test.avi which is in Lower quality of size 10mb
      and i just replace it with another test.avi of size 2kb whose quality is 10 times
      worse than ever

      billrich

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      Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
      « Reply #7 on: November 07, 2009, 07:50:54 PM »
      Means...
      If there is a file named test.avi which is in Lower quality of size 10mb
      and i just replace it with another test.avi of size 2kb whose quality is 10 times
      worse than ever

      Unless you are out of space don't compress.  Put seldom used files on an external drive.

      Good Luck.

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        Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
        « Reply #8 on: November 07, 2009, 09:57:12 PM »
        @OP, describe what you want to do EXACTLY. You can making the people who answer your post more confused... . Do you want to convert avi from high quality to lower quality ? then use a video conversion tool that does that for you. If you are talking about compression as in what zip or winzip does for you, then no, compressing an avi file doesn't give you much reduction in size.

        great_compressor_pain

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        Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
        « Reply #9 on: November 08, 2009, 06:59:12 AM »
        Now this is The real thing

        i rip off videos from games...(not really rip off just MOVE them in Temp Folder)

        Now my Temp Folder is in

        E:\Temp\

        It Contain 36 *.bik files (video Files) of game which r 2 b Replaced by 36 blank *.bik files

        which Are in:

        E:\Temp\Movies

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        Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
        « Reply #10 on: November 08, 2009, 02:19:29 PM »
        Code: [Select]
        @echo off
        for %%P in (*.bik) do copy /Y E:\temp\movies\%%P .

        replaces "bik" files in current folder with files from E:\temp\movies.
        I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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        Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
        « Reply #11 on: November 15, 2009, 07:26:53 AM »
        I appreciate all  replies
        but no one works

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        Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
        « Reply #12 on: November 15, 2009, 08:21:28 AM »
        I appreciate all  replies
        but no one works

        Take your computer to your trusted local computer shop. 

        If you need money to pay for the software repair, contact me by email.

        Salmon Trout

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        Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
        « Reply #13 on: November 15, 2009, 08:45:54 AM »
        He's gone mad.

        great_compressor_pain

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        Re: Need Help with renaming thousands of files
        « Reply #14 on: November 23, 2009, 07:22:12 AM »
        Salmon u r not Understanding ma problem

        Last tym I ll try 2 explain wat problem is



        consider my game is Batman
        and ma videos are in E:\Batman\Videos\Trailer.bik (50 mb)

        now i Have the low quality Video of 10 mb in E:\Temp\Temp.bik
        (now u understood Problem is not size but the "NAME"

        pls Give me a code which would Overwrite Trailer.bik with Temp.bik [and  rename Temp.bik to Trailer.bik]


        der r LOLS of Filessssssssssssssssssssssssssss