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Some infos about HtmRen Beta
 

This was designed to be used in conjunction with GetRight or a similar tool which mass-downloads a page and all of the files linked to that page. If you have the files and the original page, you will be able to rename all of the files.
 

What it does:

  • Takes an HTML page, and looks for file references
  • When it finds one, it looks for the text you would click on to retrieve that file (usually blue letters)
  • It will rename that file, if it exists, to what the HTML file says it is.
  • If it can't find the file, it will let you know so you can go download it immediately!
  • Preserves file extension (zip files stay zip files, rar files stay rar files, etc)
     

Warning!!

Do not run this on your own files, because if you change the filenames, all your links will be broken. Anyone who e-mails me to complain that their links are broken and hundres of people are demanding their MaD rOmZ will be added to every spam e-mail list I can find. and publicly humiliated. There is such a thing as the "Edit / Undo Rename" menu item, please press repeatedly.

If this porks your HD, deletes your collection, or otherwise causes pain, loss, or consternation, sorry. Don't come after me because I have nothing to offer.
 

How it works and why

Most sites with files to download have their files available in either DOS 8.3 format (eight letters, a dot, and three more letters) or all in the same case with no spaces (i.e. SUPER_MARIO.zip). So when you download, you have all these crazy filenames. Want to rename them all yourself? NO! Of course not. So don't.

HtmRen looks for links to files which look like this: 



     <A HREF="SUPER_MARIO.zip>Super Mario Bros</A>
This gives you a link that looks like this: 

     Super Mario Bros
and when you click on those words, you download the file SUPER_MARIO.zip. So HtmRen takes the file extension (in this case .zip ) and adds it to the given title to make "Super Mario Bros.zip"
 

Known Issues:

This is a beta version, to see if there is a need to add or fix anything. I don't release things unless they work flawlessly enough for me. If not I fix them first, but I cannot test every situation.

Anyway, the criteria for whether a problem is put in the Error or the Event textbox is not perfect. Look both places for now. Missing files will be in the top box most but not all of the time. Mostly, linked filenames which have problems will be in the bottom box.

thanks, tW

the balzano50 guy at the hotmail.com place

 

 

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