Adding descriptions to files

[Andante]

Hello, TC friends,

I am in the Multi-Rename Tool almost every day, and love its great versatility. What an enormous time-saver. I'm well-versed in how you can rename a long array of files using a list from a text file. But today I'd like to do the same for file descriptions.

Is there any way to automate adding descriptions to a list of files? Thanks for your help.

[Stefan2]

To answer I searched for a description in English and found that
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patxiku wrote:
It is possible to put simple comments to several (selected) files simultaneously using Atributes Changie in File menu.

With the option “Change attributes
with plugin” checked and “More attributes" button
they can be changed comments. Add tc.comment, and the desired comment in value.




- Select one or some files
- Files -> Change Attributes...

- [x] Change Plugin attributes:
- [More attributes]
- | tc | comment | your text here |
[OK]



 

[Gral]

2 Stefan2
This way it's possible to add the same comment for all files only.
I assume Andante want to know way to adding different comment for different files, which is not so easy.

2 Andante
If you have file with filenames and comments in such a format, e.g.:

Code: Select all

file comment
"another file" another comment
"yet another file" yet another comment

you can simply rename or copy this file to local DESCRIPT.ION

[Stefan2]

Is there any way to automate adding descriptions to a list of files?

I assume Andante want to know way to adding different comment for different files, which is not so easy.

For different comments to different files I perhaps would use:

1.) DIR /B >DESCRIPT.ION.txt

2.) modify DESCRIPT.ION.txt ,
save and rename to descript.ion

[sorcar]

To add/edit easily comments to a large number of files in a folder --

Copy to clipboard all selected filenames in the folder (cm_CopyNamesToClip)
Paste in column A of Excel/Google sheets
In the column B, edit/add your comments
Select and copy columns A and B; paste in a text editor, like notepad++
To put double quotes around filenames with spaces, in regex mode search with ([^\r\n^\t]+ +[^\t]+)(\t.+)$ replace with "$1"$2
Backup the old descript.ion file by renaming to descript.ion.bak
Save the text file as descript.ion in the folder containing the files

New or edited comments will populate filenames!

I've been doing this for a long time. Anyone has ideas for making this process easier and/or with less steps?