So in the end I got Automator to work. I did find that dealing with the large number of files is problematic for drag and drop. If I selected all the dpx files and dragged into Automater I got a beach ball that persisted to the point that I gave up dragging them all at once. I created a buffer folder and dragged 5,000 files at a time into there and renamed them. I repeated this but even dragging 5,000 files to a new folder took time. I was not moving the files to another drive just to a different folder on the same drive. Still it became nerve racking to wait several minutes for a group of 5,0000 files to finally move to the new folder.
I then made use of the "add" button rather than drag and dropping to get the files into Automator. That took a couple minutes but it did the proper renaming and I didn't have to bounce to a buffer folder. I was able to add approx 50,000 files and do them all at once without moving them out of the original folder. I know now that is how I should have proceeded to begin with.
I am curious what takes so long when dragging and dropping large numbers of files to a new folder on the same drive. The data isn't being copied it's just the directory pointers that change. Does it really take 3 to 4 minutes to change the pointers on 5,000 files? I restarted a few times to make sure there wasn't some memory leak type thing happening. I have 24GB of ram but I don't know if ram comes into play.
I got very nervous watching the copy process taking so long and after a few minutes the files disappear from the source folder and then a few minutes later pop up in the destination folder. The copy progress bar moved slowly and would pause several times. I guess the computer is processing under the hood. Just seemed less stable than I would have thought but then I rarely copy such large numbers of individual files at the desktop level. Usually I will just drag the folder containing all the files.
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, 01:41 John Moore bigfish@... [Editing-List], <Editing-List@yahoogroups.com> wrote:When exporting a DPX file the network has a specific file naming convention they want applied. Avid takes the sequence name and makes it the text for the individual DPX files. The format becomes "Sequence Title".0000000.dpx (without the "s)So here in lies the rub. Avid will only take the first 64 characters of the sequence name and the rest gets truncated. I believe there is a way to use Automator on a Mac to batch rename but that's not something we've done before. The resulting DPX file works fine it just doesn't have all the requested text on the individual files.I will start googling but is there some sort of 64 character limit to file naming in the DPX spec? I doubt there is because I wouldn't think the network would have made this request if there was. Some days I just feel so guilty for having all the fun.John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@...
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