Edited some of the README.md to fix typos or reformulate the sentences. It's not perfect yet, since I wasn't always completely sure what was meant by the original author.

When starting the application, stdout alarms: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”

I fixed this through installing the dependency sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module

And restarted bash with a PATH export like such: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/modules:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./szyszka

On an XFS and NFS-mounted-XFS partition, I'm unable to add any files and the only output when run in the terminal is Unable to get creation date from file

Adding files from an ext4 partition works fine.

In the absence of tracking down and fixing the specific problem, I'd love to be able to use the program without the creation date magic replacement variable (or have it just fill zeroes instead of rejecting the file completely).

hello,

these two options appear to give the same result. creation date option does not appear to pull from metadata.

pdf metadata:

$(creat) result:

$(modif) result:

I would like to use this program to replace the name of files by a sequence of numbers to shorten the file name. Now there is the issue, that the order of the files will be inverted by default and I have to reorder the files by hand. This is feasible for a small number of files, but not if the mount of files goes into the hundreds or thousands. Is there an option to fix this, like ordering the files ascending instead of descending by clicking "current name" in the header?

Three problems:

• certain programs break when confronted with file names containing non-ASCII (this is especially visible for Windows - eg. username Michał will lead you in trouble, because some files will end in C:\Users\Micha\ and others will end in C:\Users\Michał\)

• certain programs break when confronted with file names containing colons (it breaks Windows on OS level and causes trouble for rsync) or spaces (these are just poorly written).

My suggestion is to provide way to normalize file names - using algorithm similar to eg. slug.

When trying to add files from an external drive it gives me the following error: Unable to get creation date from file X

Happens when running as root and not. Happens when using appimage as well as compiled from source. OS: Artix (linux 5.12.12.artix1-1)

I've been playing with version 1.0.0 on a fresh Windows 7 SP1 machine and it seems to work fine (except some Windows-specific curiosities like being unable to change case if that's the only rule applied but that's a different issue). I mentioned that in the Windows requirements paragraph and improved it more a bit.

Hello there I published szyszka on Gentoo's GURU overlay Also i added myself as a watcher for the releases page, so i will keep the package in sync with the upstream releases

Thanks for the program, it looks great! Sadly, my random use case that popped up right after I saw it isn't covered.

I'd like to be able to compare duplicates as is, but then, on the selection, have the option to select (and delete) all of the files that are in a selected directory tree. I have multiple copies of the same folder that have diverged and I essentially want to keep one tree as is, and then only keep the files that are different in the second tree.

I may be your first Windows tester. If that is truly the case, I'm really glad because Rust has recently drawn a lot more attention and this project looks promising. It's nice to see an open source app being also built for Windows :)

Onto the bug I've noticed in the Windows build: The $(MODIF) tag in the custom rules does not work properly: it is shown in the status view (image 1, below), it tries to rename the file(s) accordingly when I click on the "Start Renaming" button and confirm, but fails, saying "Ignored 1 file(s), because there" (size issues with the results dialog box?) (image 2, below). After this, the same file(s) cannot be added anymore, even after reopening the executable. If the rule is anything other than a custom rule (I've not tested any other tags yet), the batch renaming works perfectly fine and the same file(s) can be re-added without any issues.

Improvements (in my opinion, at least):

1. In the Windows build, a command prompt window opens. Perhaps you could hide it from the end user. If not, I personally don't mind.
2. Bigger text for some elements (e.g. "Status" in the status pane in the lower area)

Other than that, the app is great! Keep on!

i am switching to another file system and it only allowes 255 characters in a file name. it would be cool if there would be a option to do different stuff with different the file is longer or shorter. or to make it posible to trim a file name to a specific lench.

On debian 10 + Gnome, using the AppImage (release 2.0.0) i get, as soon as I click "Add Folders":

$ ./linux_szyszka.AppImage 
Gtk-Message: 20:33:04.767: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 20:33:04.768: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so: undefined symbol: g_mount_operation_get_is_tcrypt_system_volume
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so: undefined symbol: g_mount_operation_get_is_tcrypt_system_volume
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgioremote-volume-monitor.so
Errore di segmentazione

libgioremote-volume-monitor.so is not available.

More, package libgtk3-dev

apt install libgtk3-dev
...
E: Cannot find package libgtk3-dev

I tried installing libgtk3.0-cil-dev but I don't know if is really the same...

Flatpack and Snap versions are working fine.

Thank you, Riccardo

I have a folder with almost 2000 files in it, all in alphabetical order and I have a text list what I want them all to be named. It would be nice to be able to select all of the files, verify they are in order, and replace them with the names from the names.txt text list.

Or a spreadsheet that has the existing name in the first column, and the replacement name in the second column.

It will be a nice feature to save all the settings in the rule section. Then I never have to setup everything again every time I restart the software. :)

The flatpak package that is available at "http://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.github.qarmin.szyszka" is unable to load the canberra-gtk-module, which is demonstrated by this log.

The snap-package that is available at "http://snapcraft.io/szyszka" is additionally unable to load the canberra-gtk-module, which is demonstrated by the output that is available at "https://github.com/qarmin/szyszka/issues/38#issuecomment-903112786".