I have done a LOT of bulk renames over the last several months, both by selecting a folder as a staring point, and by selecting a specific set of files within a folder, and would have noticed it long before if it wasn't a very new issue. It's only when i launch via the explore extension (ie right click. I tested, and If I start BRU from it's shortcut (which I normally would never do), the application launches fine. Whether I am doing that with a folder selected, or with one or more individual files selected, I get the same "Encountered improper argument" dialog on startup. Especially the loss of the ability to pre-select certain files.įor me it is specific to launching Bulk Rename Utility via the Windows Explorer extension. I assumed it was a session thing and really didn't pay much attention to details since other then the annoying extra step of re-selecting the starting point it doesn't seem to affect actual operation. Either I started having the issue and checked for an update, or I did the update and started having the issue. It's been a couple of weeks, so I'm not 100% sure of the sequence. This started happening just a couple of weeks ago, either just before or just after I upgraded to 3.4.1 (directly from 3.3.2.1) on the 6th or 7th of October. I will come back here if there is newer information. So I guess we can put it on the back burner until I can back this up with more solid results. I executed this program under both Win7 and Win8 - Win8 on a Laptop did not give this problem trying to exit - Win7 on a Desktop is showing this problem on exit, but not every time. I finally noticed a button saying something like "To exit - Press OK" so I did and it went away. If I attempted to exit the result would be another message window that showed a larger amount of exit, but it boiled down to "The program is expecting input from me" and so I could not exit. This time using 3.4.1.0 the error window popped up the first time the main window displayed. I wasn't going to bring it up now but it has still got a problem somewhere.īut the problem is slightly different than with ver 3.0.0.1. So now after a couple of days and executing it several time, I have just experienced this problem again. I thought the problem was gone in this new version. So I downloaded, installed and executed it and it exited fine using the same various methods. I looked for a newer version and gladly found 3.4.0.0. The quotes in every instance you see them.I would like to add my 2 cents to this error condition.Ī week or two ago when attempting to execute the previous version of BRU (meaning what I had on my system = 3.0.0.1), and with a clean and first time display of the main window - I attempted to quit BRU immediately by various methods and they all gave me a small window showing the words "Encountered improper argument". In other words, you can read this line of the script as “ replace THIS with THIS.” To the characters you want to replace, and delete REPLACEMENT so that you can enter the text that should replace the The script this way lets you drop it into any folder and have it automatically That is, a period and then a backslash, without a space. It’s currently located in, just change the path to. To make the script always apply to the folder To do that, you need to change the text called ENTER\PATH\HERE to the exact folder where your soon-to-be-renamed files are located.įor example, maybe you want to rename a group of files in a folder on your desktop, in which case your folder path might look like this: C:\Users\Matt\Desktop\Converted MP3s\. Step 3: Edit the file rename script to make it apply to your unique
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