I think the ideal would be to do this outside of Pd with a dedicated software (like batch file renamer on windows or anything from the appstore on mac). if, for some reason, you really wanna do this within Pd, then you should take a look at the attached patch: it's a loop recorder that can save audio to files in a dedicated folder and name these files sequentially. You can probably modify it to do just what you want. But were talking .wav here, I'm not sure what to do with jpg's. Anyway, hope it helps...
 
note: the "choose directory" function on the patch requires you to click on a file in the desired directory. If there is none, you can just create an empty notepad file or something.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/schafferdavid/

http://audioblog.arteradio.com/David_Schaffer/

  

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From: pat@digitalworlds.ufl.edu
To: pd-list@iem.at
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:18:47 +0000
Subject: [PD] renaming files on the fly

Hello

 

Is there a way with pd to rapidly rename files downloaed from the internet?

For example I will be downloading .jpgs with all sorts of long reference names

xxxxxxxxx.jpg and I want to automatically rename it “1.jpg”

Is this possible

 

Thanks in advance

 

pp

 

Patrick Pagano, B.S, M.F.A

Assistant in Digital Arts and Science

Digital Worlds Institute

University of Florida, USA

(352)294-2020

 

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