I need it to rename one hundred sequentially numbered albums. Notice that in the following examples the number format is not exactly the same all over.
Current Name
My File Vol. 001
My File Vol. 2
My File Vol. 03
My File Vol. 004
... up to My File Vol. 100
The new sequentially numbered album names should look like this:
New Name
My File Vol. 001^100
My File Vol. 002^100
My File Vol. 003^100
My File Vol. 004^100
... up to My File Vol. 100^100
You will have noticed that it is only the numbered portion of the album name that needs to be changed.
Thank you stevehero, for the effort you have put into figuring this out. Forgive me though, as the use of regular expressions (regex) is absolutely foreign to me and when I applied your regex it did not deliver the results I expected. Undoubtedly though, this was due to my own inability to correctly, or clearly, express my predicament to start off with. On top of this, I was most probably also applying it wrongly.
I realize now that I need to be much more careful when I describe where and what it is I need the regex to do. For instance, it is 100 albums that I need to renumber - each of which may contain any number of files. I thought I could easily adapt your supplied regex by changing some of the parameters in your format string before applying it again, but I only kept on shooting myself in the foot. It was/is great fun, however.
In the end, I gave up, and I certainly would appreciate a prod in the right direction.
Sad to report that impatience completely messed up the renaming for me. While I should have waited for your response, I opted to fool around - which I did pretty good and ended up with the mess. Now I seem to have only two options left: do it the long way or start afresh, but this time with the ALBUM field completely blank. What I still do have to start with, is the album-directory/folder already correctly named (e.g. My Album Vol. 001^100 up to My Album Vol. 100^100), but how do I transfer that to the album field, using a regular expression?
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