Batch export ignores dots in file names

• Jan 31, 2018 - 12:19
Reported version
2.1
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
Batch Convert

Batch convert is a wonderful and powerful tool. I tried to convert a folder with more than 1,000 mscz files. It worked perfect for all files with only a dot in to separate the file name and the extension.
De converter ignores files with more than 1 dot.
For example: title.mscz will be converted, title version 1.0.mscz will be ignored.

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• Jan 31, 2018 - 13:34

Maybe you could try to edit batch_convert.qml and in line 680 replace
var fileBase = fileName.substring(0,fileName.length - fileSuffix.length -1)
with
var fileBase = files.get(i, "fileBaseName")
and check whether this solves the issue for you?

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• Jan 31, 2018 - 14:15

Thanks for the reply. I found the mentionned code on line 688. I replaced, but sadly, this didn't change anything.
Actually strange things happen after the change. Even if I delete all mid and pdf files the plugin says 'Already up to date' in all cases.
When I check the listbox with the files that are being processed, I can see that the files with multiple dots in the file names are still ignored.

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• Jan 31, 2018 - 14:22

I suspect the Qt QML methods use the 1st dot to determine fileSuffix rather than the last, so maybe we need to create some own code to do it properly.

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