Filename - Tag -> Change output directory?

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Hello - am changing the Title Tags on some Mp4 files to the filenames, and it seems to have to completely re-copy the file in the process. Is there a way to set a new destination folder for it to copy to while the title-tag is being changed (to speed up the process by copying from one drive to anyother)?

Thanks!!

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If you use Convert>Filename-Tag then the filename stays as it is.
If you want to rename the file, use Convert>Tag-Filename, e.g. with
Format string: d:\my_new_path%_filename%

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Thanks for the reply - just to be clear, I am setting the title-tag of each file to match the filename, but am just wanting it to do this outputing into a new directory (since it has to completely recopy the file anyway). Doesn't Convert>Tag-Filename do the opposite, by changing the filename to the title tag (if there is one)?

Is there a path variable possible with Convert>Filename-Tag?

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Have you tried my suggestion?
You may notice that I used %_filename% as part of the format string - and that takes what it finds in the pure filename without changing it. But when you add a path to the name, the file gets moved.

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That doesn't work. It moves the file, but doesn't change the title-tag. I am just trying to get away from reading and writing from the same drive while the title-tag is changed to the filename, since it appears to have to completely rewrite the entire file to change that tag. It would be far faster to read from one drive and write to another as that title-tag is changed to the filename.

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You describe 2 steps:

  1. rename the file
  2. set data in the TITLE field

so these are 2 steps that have to be carried out separately with 2 separate function calls.
The file only has to be rewritten it the padding is not large enough. Otherwise the data is simply inserted.
But you are right: these are separate file operations.

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Well thanks for your time. I'm only asking because I have 14TB of files to do this to and read/write from a single drive is painfully slower than copying to a different drive DURING the process. Would be Great if there was a path variable within the %Title% process, rather than defaulting to the temp-file thing.