Hi Pranav On 2016-03-01 17:52, Pranav Ganorkar <pranavg189 gmail com> wrote:
If you are renaming several hundred files, do you think that the user should be prompted to enter a new filename for each one?Yes, that can be a concern. then in my opinion, automatically truncating the filename could help. But I want to know why the previous implemention failed in doing this ? Why was it removed ?
The previous implementation was not used. I have no idea why, as EasyTAG did not use a revision control system, but every place that called into it was commented out.
Something to think about is the difference in behaviour between automatically renaming files (for example, a whole album or more with the scanner dialog) or a single rename (such as renaming a directory or an individual file based on user input).
For the "single" rename case, you could give immediate feedback as to whether the name would be too long, while for the "multiple" (or automatic) case you would probably just truncate the name until the length was the maximum. There might be some other cases, and automated renaming with only a few files could justify confirmation for each file (especially if only a subset of files had names that were too long).
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