There is NO extension in a DIR!!11oneone

ThurahT · Post by *ThurahT » 2013-07-06, 13:28 UTC

It makes me crazy that TC's MRT treats DIRs as files with file extensions! How can I kill this very irritating behaviour!?

I have thousands and thousands of DIRs with several dots in them. IT IS HELL

umbra · Post by *umbra » 2013-07-06, 13:40 UTC

OK, could you provide an example of a situation, in which this is a problem?

ThurahT · Post by *ThurahT » 2013-07-07, 01:43 UTC

I managed to work around it by putting several name brackets in name field and remove extension field and put that in name filed also.

Took a long time to find the culprit though. Treating DIRs as files is (at least for me) very illogical. I guess it is by design and acquired some how for MRT to work.

TLis · Post by *TLis » 2013-07-07, 05:46 UTC

Well, in Wndows a file and a directory entry differ only in one attribute

In all other respects they are subject to the same rules.

Have you considered doing a search including or excluding the Directory attirbute, as required, and doing an appropriate MRT operation on the entries found?

umbra · Post by *umbra » 2013-07-07, 07:02 UTC

ThurahT wrote:I managed to work around it by putting several name brackets in name field and remove extension field and put that in name filed also.

I see, that can be a bit inconvenient. In such cases, I usually use [A#-#] instead of [N#-#][E#-#] which makes the file pattern a bit simpler.