When one requests search and replace on the file renamer, it gives you the screen. If you type in a search phrase, it finds nothing. Thus one cannot replace it. Other functions seem to work ok. I am using Fedora 30 with XFCE
Cannot reproduce. Search & replace in bulk renamer work just like usually for me. Could you please add a concrete, minimal example to reproduce the bug ? - Minimal number of files to trigger the bug ? - Name of the files ? - Search & replace strings ? Regular Expression ? Case sensitive ? Thanks !
Created attachment 8850 screenshot of my comment Here is a screen shot. I put the image files in (any number) and tell it to find IMG and replace it with test (I tried TEST and unchecked the regular expression with the same result). In all cases the Rename Files remains grey, as does cancel and nothing appears under the new name. I use this feature all the time, and it is just in the last several weeks that this problem has occurred. If I switch to other options (Insert date/time, etc) the rename files and cancel are no long greyed out. and the new name file is filled with file names.
my mistake, the cancel button is not greyed out, just the rename files button.
Looks like you added a space before 'IMG' ... the renamer did not find any picture with '<space>IMG' :D
You are correct. Thank you. Is there any way when you load the program to start with empty fields? Or eliminating leading spaces? No idea how the space got there, and it has been loading that screen that way for weeks. So I guess that is a feature request ;-). Anyway, thank you for noticing that. It was driving me nuts. John
yw :) The latest renamer-settings are stored in $HOME/.config/Thunar/renamerrc So theoretically you could whipe this file, e.g. at startup ... well a bit hackish. Dont think it is a good idea to remove the storage of settings .. I bet that other users will complain.
You are probably right about that; maybe making leading blanks visible? Anyway hopefully next time I will see it. Again thanks for the help. John