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fedkad

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Re: RENAMER Compatibility (Linux)

ReNamer under Wine (tested on Ubuntu) cannot change the case of a file. So the Case rule, when used only by itself, does not work under Linux. However, besides the Case rule, if you add something else that changes the name of the file, then it works as expected. I think this is related to Wine's handling of file renaming operations.

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spiritual2700

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Re: RENAMER Compatibility (Linux)

ReNamer under Wine (tested on Ubuntu) cannot change the case of a file. So the Case rule, when used only by itself, does not work under Linux. However, besides the Case rule, if you add something else that changes the name of the file, then it works as expected. I think this is related to Wine's handling of file renaming operations.

What version of wine are you running?

fedkad

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Re: RENAMER Compatibility (Linux)

What version of wine are you running?

It is

wine-9.0 (Ubuntu 9.0~repack-4build3)

running in Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole).

spiritual2700

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Re: RENAMER Compatibility (Linux)

What version of wine are you running?

It is

wine-9.0 (Ubuntu 9.0~repack-4build3)

running in Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole).

I'm having the same behaviour on Kubuntu 24.04 with wine-10.0.

den4b

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Registered: 2006-04-06

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Re: RENAMER Compatibility (Linux)

ReNamer under Wine (tested on Ubuntu) cannot change the case of a file. So the Case rule, when used only by itself, does not work under Linux. However, besides the Case rule, if you add something else that changes the name of the file, then it works as expected. I think this is related to Wine's handling of file renaming operations.

I believe your hunch is correct.

Wine's handling of file renaming operations prevents file renaming operations where only the case is changed. When you ask it to rename a file, it tries to physically copy the contents of the source file to the destination file. Basically, it tries to open both the source file and the destination file which would resolve into the same actual file, due case insensitive matching of filenames on Windows.

You can stop reading here, unless you are super geeky

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ReNamer uses MoveFileW Windows API function to rename files.

Wine's implementation of MoveFileW function goes like this:

MoveFileW
=> MoveFileExW( source, dest, MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED );

MoveFileExW
=> MoveFileWithProgressW( source, dest, NULL, NULL, flag );

MoveFileWithProgressW
=> CopyFileExW( source, dest, progress, param, NULL, flag & MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING ? 0 : COPY_FILE_FAIL_IF_EXISTS ))
=> DeleteFileW( source )

CopyFileExW
=> copy_file( source, dest, &params );

copy_file
=> CreateFileW( source, ... )
=> CreateFileW( dest, ... )
=> ReadFile
=> WriteFile

The copy_file function in Wine is where such renaming operations will fail.

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spock8020

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Re: RENAMER Compatibility (Linux)

Hi,
I also found Renamer the best tool around, in windows.
But now I switched to Linux Mint and I (again) clearly didn't find a tool as good as Renamer by Den4.
I wrote a tool to detect the bpm in my audio files and write it into a tag, using AI.
Claude.ai seems to be the best FREE ai for this kind of tasks, at this moment
Just for fun I asked Claude.ai to make a linuxmint tool similar to Renamer by Den.
To my surprise Claude.ai produced a very nice Python tool, with similar functionalities as Renamer, including the installation of all the needed software in the case something was missing.
He also gave me a nice (installation) manual.
Everything was done in a few minutes ...

I only plan to use it a few times per year, for personal use.

Maybe den4 could use also ai to transcribe its tools for the major Linux distro's?

Ragards, and thank for the very good renamer tool