Renumbering files

cday · Post by **cday** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 8:37 pm

The following option was recently added to NConvert to enable files to be renumbered:

-n start end step : Begin End Step (for image sequence)

If I use the following code to renumber four input files 01L 01R 02L 02R :

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nconvert -n 1 4 1 -out jpeg -o Output\###.jpg Input\*.jpg

Expected result: the files are renumbered to 001 002 003 004

Actual result:

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Conversion of Input\01L.jpg into Output\001.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\01L.jpg into Output\002.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\01L.jpg into Output\003.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\01L.jpg into Output\004.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\01R.jpg into Output\001_1.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\01R.jpg into Output\002_1.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\01R.jpg into Output\003_1.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\01R.jpg into Output\004_1.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\02L.jpg into Output\001_2.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\02L.jpg into Output\002_2.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\02L.jpg into Output\003_2.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\02L.jpg into Output\004_2.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\02R.jpg into Output\001_3.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\02R.jpg into Output\002_3.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\02R.jpg into Output\003_3.jpg OK
Conversion of Input\02R.jpg into Output\004_3.jpg OK

Each input file is renumbered four times instead of once...

Am I misunderstanding the intended use of the option, or is this a bug?

Post by **xnview** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:31 pm

-n was not recently added

you need to use

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nconvert -n 1 4 1 -out jpeg -o Output\###.jpg Input\###.jpg

cday · Post by **cday** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:14 pm

xnview wrote:-n was not recently added

You are right

But I'm confused because I clearly recall an existing option being modified within the last year or two to add, I think, a step parameter, but I can't find any reference to that now.

xnview wrote:you need to use
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nconvert -n 1 4 1 -out jpeg -o Output\###.jpg Input\###.jpg

I tried that code and many variations, but couldn't get the expected renumbering...

I don't know if the renumbering option could possibly only work for a filelist input, for example??

BTW in testing older NConvert versions, I believe I saw different results in recent versions compared with earlier versions, but as none actually worked I didn't stop to record the actual outputs. I mention it in case the issue arises in the future in another thread.

I finally found the following using NConvert without the -n option works:

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nconvert -o Output\###.jpg Input\*.jpg

As my immediate need is to renumber files sequentially incremented by one using simple code, that one-line solution meets my needs very well! Thanks for giving us NConvert!

Post by **XnTriq** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:45 pm

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