# Help for Newbie With Actions

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**Created:** [February 18, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-for-newbie-with-actions/9920 "2010-02-18T18:16:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-for-newbie-with-actions/9920/2 "2010-02-19T06:45:49Z")

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> [@KevJ](#):
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> I see the art needs to be named "folder" which is not really much help as a lot of the stuff I get doesnt have art named that way?

there is a thread  
[/t/9691/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/9691/1)  
that pretty much circle around the same problem.  
The whole effort is only worthwhile if you have a lot of jpgs to rename.  
Because in the end you have to handle each file individually if they all have individual names.

Renaming non-mp3-files is a task for the surrounding operating system.

So I think it is time to get acquainted with the good ole DOS commands dir and ren  
Make a list of all jpgs:  
Open a dos-shell in the topmost folder.  
Enter  
dir /s /b \*.jpg \> ff.txt  
you get a textfile that shows all jpgs with the complete path.  
a line might read something like  
E:\MP3Musik\Klassik\Uri Caine Ensemble\1997 - Wagner e Venezia\wagner\_wagner\_e\_venezia.jpg

You have to separate the jpg-filename from the path MANUALLY (or at least I can't think of a decent pattern to do that with search an replace) so that the formerly single line be comes 2 lines

E:\MP3Musik\Klassik\Uri Caine Ensemble\1997 - Wagner e Venezia  
wagner\_wagner\_e\_venezia.jpg

Now it is down the capabilities of your text-processing tool: it has to be able to deal with a "line end"  
In Word this is ^p.  
So a search and replace action in word would look like this:  
Search for: ^p  
Replace it with : "^pren "  
This leads to lines that look like this:

E:\MP3Musik\Klassik\Uri Caine Ensemble\1997 - Wagner e Venezia"  
ren "wagner\_wagner\_e\_venezia.jpg

search for ^pE:  
replace with: " folder.jpg^pcd "E:

this leads to lines that look like this:  
cd "E:\MP3Musik\Klassik\Uri Caine Ensemble\1997 - Wagner e Venezia"  
ren "wagner\_wagner\_e\_venezia.jpg" folder.jpg

Save the whole file as text-file and rename it in the explorer to  
ff.bat  
and execute it.

If you want to keep the original jpg-files use the command copy instead of ren.  
You see, this is all rather complicated. So you really have to have lot of jpgs to rename/copy.

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