Replace _ with - when pasting text into file names with : ; or any ther non file name character

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Replace _ with - when pasting text into file names with : ; or any ther non file name character

#1 Post by Season2Episode10 » 20.07.2022, 08:19

Greatly appreciate the contributors version, the ability to replace characters that cannot be used in file names with an underscore is excellent, however, can this be replaced with a Hyphen (-) instead of an underscore

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Re: Replace _ with - when pasting text into file names with : ; or any ther non file name character

#2 Post by Forez » 22.07.2022, 01:01

Such replacements / "translations" of illegal characters should be able to be changed to the liking of a user

I have not seen this feature that you speak of, as I use public version of FC - but I have adjusted my personally created [lets call it] "TITLE tag to FILENAME copy" feature in Mp3tag [and created also its counterpart copy-FILENAME-to-TITLE] in accordance to views of how such signs from Title of a song could be represented in filename of the audio which happens to be a song that has such title
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Re: Replace _ with - when pasting text into file names with : ; or any ther non file name character

#3 Post by Forez » 04.08.2022, 00:29

But wait - what do you mean by
Season2Episode10 wrote: 20.07.2022, 08:19 [...]
contributors version
[...]
?

I am using version 861 32-bit public and every illegal character that I write in a name of an item is transformed into >>_<< - except in the Multi Rename feature


And what is more important: how can I turn this off? I want to see error messages and not obligatory changes of what I just wrote or pasted in. In the online help I found illegal character only here: https://freecommander.com/fchelpxe/en/Multirename.html

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Re: Replace _ with - when pasting text into file names with : ; or any ther non file name character

#4 Post by Forez » 01.01.2023, 14:40

Forez wrote: 04.08.2022, 00:29 [...]
how can I turn this off?
[...]
I have just re-asked this here: https://freecommander.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13206

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Re: Replace _ with - when pasting text into file names with : ; or any ther non file name character

#5 Post by sdaughtry » 21.01.2024, 18:57

I would prefer replacing special characters with an addition/plus character (+) versus an underscore (or permit the user to configure what that replacement character should be within the Settings

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Re: Replace _ with - when pasting text into file names with : ; or any ther non file name character

#6 Post by Karol » 21.01.2024, 19:50

I would prefer replacing special characters with an addition/plus character (+) versus an underscore (or permit the user to configure what that replacement character should be within the Settings
Please check "Tools - Settings - File/folder operations: Replace illegal characters with defined character".

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