Renaming multiple files with cm_RenameOnly and ‘/’

[now]

When renaming multiple files with cm_RenameOnly you can use a backslash ‘\’ to rename files to a folder, for example “..\*.*” will move all selected files to the parent folder. Using the “alternate” path separator (because it does work like one) slash ‘/’ also works, but destroys the file name. Expected behavior would be for “../*.*” to act the same way as “..\*.*” (and any similar path specification).

[ghisler(Author)]

Can you give me an example of what you use as rename string, please?

[now]

Create a directory called “a” and two files called “123” and “456”, respectively. Then select both files and enter “a/*.*” in the “Rename/Move 2 file(s) to” dialog and execute. You will now have file called “3” and a file called “6” in the directory called “a”.

If you use “a\*.*” instead you wind up with two files called “123” and “456”, respectively, as expected.

[StatusQuo]

Confirmed, the same with copy/move via F5/F6.

It seems that always the first two characters of the file name are killed:
File "12345678.123" gets "a/3456789.123".
File "12.345" gets "a/.345"

File "12" produces an error message (Screenshot, target was a/*.*):

Cannot write [path]\a/!
Please remove write protection!

[now]

Well, typing a longer subdirectories name chops of more characters, that is, “ab/*.*” will chop of three instead of two. So the renaming algorithm doesn’t discount the characters before (and including) the slash, where it would have done it had we written “ab\*.*”.

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed TC sees the slash as a part of the name of the file - only windows itself later interprets it as a directory delimiter...

[now]

OK. Can this be fixed? As Windows interpret both ‘\’ and ‘/’ as directory separators, it makes sense if Total Commander would do so as well.

[ghisler(Author)]

I will consider this - but it would require a lot of changes in 1000s of places in the program...

[StatusQuo]

Fixed in TC 7.03
(Win2k SP4, using my test scenario)

[ghisler(Author)]

Great, thanks!