Rename files based on text file

[sylro]

Hi all

Look, the situation is the follow: I have a folder, c:\folder1, containing 'n' .wav files and a text file, Log.txt.
Log.txt contains all the .wav files names plus other things (start_time, stop_time, duration).
The problem is to rename the .wav files with the corresponding lines from Log.txt (all the lines in the Log.txt correspond with the .wav files, one by one).

Initially I was thinking that a script to do this is not big deal but I realize that is only for professionals.
What are you saying? Could be a script to do all these?

Thanks in advance
sylro

 

[EBGreen]

Could you show a sample line from Log.txt and what the rules for renaming are?

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[dseaver]

how is each line of the text file delimited (ie "name, start_time, end_time..etc")? are the files named like "1.wav" "2.wav" and the first line of the text file correspond to 1.wav and the second correspond to 2.wav? It would be a fairly straight forward script to do that.

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[PHV]

Have a look here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z9ty6h50.aspx

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[sylro]

Thanks for your interest!

I uploaded the folder 'WavFolder.rar' at the address:

http://www.filecrunch.com/file/~86re3e

It contains 2 text files:
-'FileNames.txt' which has the original names of the files
-'Administrator_audfiles.txt' which is the log file; it contains all the information about the wave files that I need to overlap the original names.
I mean
from D:\wav\Administrator_WAV_10.wav
to D:\wav\Administrator_WAV_10_[Start Time]_[Stop Time]_[Phone Number]_[Channel].wav

The wave files and the log text files are contained together in the same folder (D:\wav\).

I need help to overcome this part with writing scripts.

Thanks in advance
sylro

 

[markdmac]

Read the first file into an array.
Read the second file into an array.

Use the FileSystemObject to rename the files. A rename is done using the objFSO.Move function.



I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

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[sylro]

Thanks.