Re: Batch editing media object paths
Deborah Bennett <[email protected]>
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This sounds like a a job for a shell script, which would be simpler than a python program. Have you written a shell script before? I did a quick search and found this link which may be helpful. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/121570/rename-multiples-files-using-bash-scripting -deborah Send email to [email protected] Share files to [email protected] Sent from my iPad > On Apr 4, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Joshua Herman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Currently, my census record names are all in the following format: > census_<year>_<country>_<province/state>_<town/city>_<head of house last > name>_<first name>.jpg. This is causing quite a bit of redundancy, since > there are many census records where more than one head of household appears > in my family tree. I'd like to switch to an individual-agnostic format by > maybe replacing the last and first names with the page number or something > like that, but the task of going through and manually changing each media > object's path is a bit daunting. Therefore, I'd like to know a) what format > you all use to name census record images and b) if there is an automated > tool to get this done for me. > > I'm considering creating a Python tool that takes in a .csv of the original > file name and the desired one and updates both the file name and the GRAMPS > reference, but if something like this already exists then I don't want to > reinvent the wheel! Plus, I'm not very familiar with best practices when it > comes to editing GRAMPS data programmatically, so any light shed on this > topic is also much appreciated. > > Regards, > Josh > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > -- > Gramps-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users > https://gramps-project.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... -- Gramps-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-users https://gramps-project.org