Re: File Collisions
Karen Lewellen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel |
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Martin, Speaking personally? Giving Lynx a way to automate anything seems a bit risky. I feel the method shared for chime, should work for you as well, hit control k or control u, and name the file as you desire. Granted I am rather picky about organization, and while pleased the nls structure allows for downloads in lynx, I would still be naming them myself. I do this in bookshare all the time, regardless of the file name provided, I change it to something workable for me. Just my thoughts, Kare On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Jude DaShiell wrote: > one thing that's possible is to add a unique extension to the file name once > save is selected. for today, I'd use .c27.1 for the first file and .c27.2 > for the second file downloaded. > > > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Travis Siegel wrote: > >> I do not believe lynx makes any attempt to make the name unique. It simply >> tries to save the file. If the filename is already present, it will let >> you know, and ask if you wish to overwrite the file. >> >> I have no idea if it's possible to automate the process of renaming it it >> or not, but I'd guess that's not an option in it's current encarnation. >> >> On 3/27/2021 6:12 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: >> > Is there any feature in lynx that adds a random file extention to >> > the name of a file one is about to save to make sure it is >> > unique? >> > >> > I use lynx to download books in the NLS Talking Book >> > program and it works well for this purpose but the file names are >> > based on a formula that can produce identical file names if the >> > files represent books from the same author or represent more than >> > one issue of a periodical or in one case can be two different >> > periodicals in which the formula produces the same set of letters >> > for both sets of periodicals. >> > >> > What I have been doing is typing 000, 001, etc, after >> > these names so no two files end up with the same name, but it >> > would be nice to automate the uniqueness so nothing gets >> > clobbered. >> > >> > For the sake of clarity, the formula I refer to is the >> > web site's method for generating file names. I have no control >> > over that so any uniqueness will have to be generated here. >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > Martin McCormick >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Lynx-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lynx-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev > > _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev