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Incrementing File Number?
Authored by: mbpriddy on Sep 04, '07 09:00:35AM

Thank you for this info. Very useful!

Would it be possible for duplication of a file whose name ends in a number to automatically increment that number in the name of the copy? This would save me steps in our production version workflow.

Other files (whose names don't end in a number) would be named as usual.



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Incrementing File Number?
Authored by: ClarkGoble on Sep 04, '07 09:47:59AM

That would require reprogramming. It'd be nice if it did that. But I don't think there's any switches to do it.



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Incrementing File Number?
Authored by: _Gekko_ on Sep 04, '07 04:05:28PM

SOmewhere in the code something like this exists : when downloading the same file multiple times, incrementing numbers are added to the 'duplicated' files ...



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Incrementing File Number?
Authored by: ClarkGoble on Sep 04, '07 10:13:26PM

Well yes its in the code. But they don't have some setting that lets you change the behavior, so far as I know. Thus you'd need to recode it.



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Incrementing File Number?
Authored by: _Gekko_ on Sep 06, '07 08:11:03PM

What I was thinking was actually that one would be able to write an applescript (or the like) that would duplicate the file by 'downloading' it from it's own location, p.ex using a browser and assigning the process a 'hot key'. This would give us a fairly easy way of duplicating files with incrementing numbers without messing with te Finder etc. (what has to be redone each time there's an update ...)



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