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cannot rename files

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Mathias (Author):
You can Copy , Move, Delete, Edit, View, Filtering, Selection, Goto, Run

But not delete

srage:
Do you plan on implementing it at some point down the road? I was just thinking that even the lame Windows Explorer search lets you perform actions on search results directly, so your tool being so much better should do the same. Yes/No?

Mathias (Author):
The answer is No and Yes.

Problem is that MC result pane is just that, a dumb list only. not a virtual file system view, Like WinExp.
And rename support will not be added to it.
But a lot of changes are planed for search with an entire new result UI. and then it will probably work.

srage:
ok, lets take this a step further maybe as workaround is there a way to automatically rename (truncate) file names that are too long? Couple days ago you explained to me how to build a search to identify files that exceed X number of characters (255). So now I have a list of 1000+ files that are too long to burn on a DVD (for archival purposes) and I need to shorten the names. I would be fine with renaming them in bulk by truncating lets say the last 105 characters because the first 150 should be sufficient to know what the file is.

is that do-able?
thanks!

Mathias (Author):
If you can find them with Search.. and select the one you want to rename.
Then start Multi-Rename. (Menu > Extension > MultiRename )
If you only want the first 105 char of the filename you enter "[N1-105]" in the Filename field.

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