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2MR2PostApril 19, 2022, 18:57
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I think I see what you're doing in Add Hyphen to Folder Name but it calls Process One Folder which is empty. I think you want the Insert statement to be in the called action.

Also all its doing is modifying the named variable Folder. It's not actually saving anything to a field or renaming a folder.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. Inserting a dash at offset 16 will appear right in the middle of the # after BBC Legends.

Show be a before and after folder name (text is fine) and I'll try to modify what you've done.
SnowdogPostApril 20, 2022, 06:26
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Okay, so coming to this fresh, I realise that even if the part I shared last night is correct, it's only half done as an action.

I've hit a road block because, as per the screen shot where your action is top left & mine is bottom right, I can't seem to find the correct module to give me the find & replace function that appears to come next.

I have a "find & remove" but not a find & replace.
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2MR2PostApril 20, 2022, 07:44
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The statements are organized into categories. The Text category has a statement named Replace. This is the simplest non regular expression statement that can replace text.

BTW. If you double click on a statement in the top right quadrant, it displays the help for that statement.
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Okay, I'm back on this after a couple of busy days & I've slightly lost the plot.

The catalogue numbers for these releases should have a hyphen before the last digit, so:

41992 should be 4199-2.

I was able to change that easily with the file tags because the insert functionality in the multi-field editor is very straightforward.

I could do the same change in the finder using Apple's replace function for the folder names, except I'd have to say "find 2, (two comma space) & make it -2, (hyphen two comma space)" & it would add a hyphen into any of the years that end in a 2 in the second part of the file name (see screen shot for Borodin Quartet as an example). I'd then have to quickly go through & change those few back.

I thought, how sweet it would be if I could build an action to do this.

I couldn't. 😆

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2MR2PostApril 21, 2022, 10:06
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The easiest way to do this is by using a regular expression 🙁

Download the action at: https://2manyrobots.com/actions/Snowdog-InsertDashtoContiningFolder.zip

The action will be available on the rename menu or in the action manager.

I've documented it.
SnowdogPostApril 21, 2022, 10:24
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I'm on it. Thanks!

Sadly "regular expression" (& any other kind of expression, frankly) doesn't really mean anything to me at the moment, so sorry if you've already explained this several times in words of one syllable.
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That worked perfectly, of course. 🙂

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