Help converting Year to a simpler format

[ohrenkino]

see e.g.

Trim %Year% if beyond 4 characters

I have numerous files where the year is listed as "2012-12-27". I want to trim this to only show the actual 4 digit year - "2012" for example. I have tried the following: $if($len(%Year%)>4,$cutRight(%Year%,6),%Year%) This will trim everything after the first 4 digits for those files where the year is greater than 4 characters in length. However, when running this action, if it finds a file with only a 4 digit year, it is deleting it. So, in the end, I want to be able to check the year field…

Why do you include the filename in the folder name?

@henriquebs12

I want to create folders of all files in the format "Year - Album name", but when I create an action of the type Format value, I used %year% - %album%%_FILENAME%,

Aren't there many files in the folder?
The format of the year that you show is actually the format for RELEASETIME. I would copy the data from YEAR to RELEASETIME and then cut the YEAR to just 4 digits as that is the format that the standard defines.