How to remove a certain number of leading chars?
In order to remove some leading characters from the filename or a tag field, create a new action in an existing action group and choose Replace with regular expression as action type.
- Field: choose where you want to remove the chars.
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Regular expression: enter
^.{3}if you want to remove 3 chars. - Replace matches with stays empty.
You can enter the number of chars to be removed between the two curly brackets.
To remove the last 3 characters use .{3}$ (but do not use this on _FILENAME as it would remove the file extension).