January 11, 201016 yr Late last night I transfered 450GB worth of movie files to my new unRAID 4.5 server. However, being tired, I forgot, before starting the transfer, to rename all of the cover art file names contained in each movie sub-folder to "folder.jpg" with "Metamorphose" (a gui based mass file renamer: http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/). I need to do this so that XBMC will see the cover art associated with each film's unique sub-directory. I can't seem to get "Metamorphose" to see the path: "smb://tower/disk2/SD-Films" or "//tower/disk2/SD-Films". I get an error that the program can't read the path. I can mount the samba path on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine and I can open a folder and browse all of the files on the unRAID server from my Ubuntu box and manually change file names, etc. I've tried "Pyrenamer" (which only seems to see locally mounted drives - no samba) and "Gnome Commander", which can see the samba share, but can't recurse to the sub-directories where the cover art files reside. Does anyone know if Metamorphose can see a samba share and what the correct path statement would look like? Or, is there another why to do this without messing up over 400 cover art filenames? I'm not proficient enough in Linux to try to do this with a command line script or command. I really don't want to have to manualy rename about 400 cover art filenames. Thanks for any suggestions or help.
January 11, 201016 yr Late last night I transfered 450GB worth of movie files to my new unRAID 4.5 server. However, being tired, I forgot, before starting the transfer, to rename all of the cover art file names contained in each movie sub-folder to "folder.jpg" with "Metamorphose" (a gui based mass file renamer: http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/). I need to do this so that XBMC will see the cover art associated with each film's unique sub-directory. I can't seem to get "Metamorphose" to see the path: "smb://tower/disk2/SD-Films". I get an error that the program can't read the path. I can mount the samba path on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine and I can open a folder and browse all of the files on the unRAID server from my Ubuntu box and manually change file names, etc. I've tried "Pyrenamer" (which only seems to see locally mounted drives - no samba) and "Gnome Commander", which can see the samba share, but can't recurse to the sub-directories where the cover art files reside. Does anyone know if Metamorphose can see a samba share and what the correct path statement would look like? Or, is there another why to do this without messing up over 400 cover art filenames? I'm not proficient enough in Linux to try to do this with a command line script or command. I really don't want to have to manualy rename about 400 cover art filenames. Thanks for any suggestions or help. Try using backslashes in the smb path, not forward slashes. smb:\\tower\disk2\SD-Films see if that works
January 11, 201016 yr Late last night I transfered 450GB worth of movie files to my new unRAID 4.5 server. However, being tired, I forgot, before starting the transfer, to rename all of the cover art file names contained in each movie sub-folder to "folder.jpg" with "Metamorphose" (a gui based mass file renamer: http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/). I need to do this so that XBMC will see the cover art associated with each film's unique sub-directory. I can't seem to get "Metamorphose" to see the path: "smb://tower/disk2/SD-Films" or "//tower/disk2/SD-Films". I get an error that the program can't read the path. I can mount the samba path on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine and I can open a folder and browse all of the files on the unRAID server from my Ubuntu box and manually change file names, etc. I've tried "Pyrenamer" (which only seems to see locally mounted drives - no samba) and "Gnome Commander", which can see the samba share, but can't recurse to the sub-directories where the cover art files reside. Does anyone know if Metamorphose can see a samba share and what the correct path statement would look like? Or, is there another why to do this without messing up over 400 cover art filenames? I'm not proficient enough in Linux to try to do this with a command line script or command. I really don't want to have to manualy rename about 400 cover art filenames. Thanks for any suggestions or help. As far as I know it can be. I am using 4.4.2 and a program on my Mac called "A Better Finder Renamer" and it allows me to work on them just fine. I can even do a multi-step rename in one go with no problem.
January 11, 201016 yr Author Late last night I transfered 450GB worth of movie files to my new unRAID 4.5 server. However, being tired, I forgot, before starting the transfer, to rename all of the cover art file names contained in each movie sub-folder to "folder.jpg" with "Metamorphose" (a gui based mass file renamer: http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/). I need to do this so that XBMC will see the cover art associated with each film's unique sub-directory. I can't seem to get "Metamorphose" to see the path: "smb://tower/disk2/SD-Films". I get an error that the program can't read the path. I can mount the samba path on my Ubuntu 9.10 machine and I can open a folder and browse all of the files on the unRAID server from my Ubuntu box and manually change file names, etc. I've tried "Pyrenamer" (which only seems to see locally mounted drives - no samba) and "Gnome Commander", which can see the samba share, but can't recurse to the sub-directories where the cover art files reside. Does anyone know if Metamorphose can see a samba share and what the correct path statement would look like? Or, is there another why to do this without messing up over 400 cover art filenames? I'm not proficient enough in Linux to try to do this with a command line script or command. I really don't want to have to manualy rename about 400 cover art filenames. Thanks for any suggestions or help. Try using backslashes in the smb path, not forward slashes. smb:\\tower\disk2\SD-Films see if that works JoeL Backslashes don't work either.
January 11, 201016 yr Author While I would still like to learn how to do this in Linux via a gui program, I can happily report that I was able to find a Windows program called "Bulk Rename Utility" that works well and does the job. For anyone interested, this is the current link for the Windows Bulk Rename Utility: http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.