[Gprename-users] Wishlist Too

[Lacrocivious A. <alt...@ya...>]

Zurd--

Prompted by R's wishlist -- which I also would find useful -- I would like to request the ability to sort the files displayed by date/time (especially by creation time).

The use case for this is that I sometimes download several series of images which are all named, say, 1 through 25. If there are more than a handful of such 1-25 sequenced image sets, then GPRename becomes almost useless in terms of sorting for that situation. The good news is that each set will differ slightly in time of creation, with each set being grouped together in time.

While it is easy to insert the '0' in front of '1-9' (why oh why are people so stupid about leading zero when naming filesets??!!), it is not currently possible to find out which 12 goes with which 13, or which 07 with which 08, etc, when there might be thirty 12's, 13's, 07's, and 08's.

What I usually do is use a viewer to manually create a bunch of temp directories, marking 1-25 for each set in the viewer and moving that set to one of the temp directories, marking/moving the next set to another temp directory, and so on. Only once this is done can I use GPRename to create a descriptive name for each set, and then these are generally moved back into the original directory into which they were downloaded.

Thanks again for this application, which I continue to use nearly every day ;-)