I just set up the Batch Converter with a profile using (only) the Arrange Audio DSP to correct the filenames in a big bunch of files ripped using the ripper with a profile with a stupid typo that went unnoticed in the naming string. Arrange audio with the corrected naming string fixed the filenames. But what bothers me is that it deleted the original files (that had the error in the file names). The uncorrected and corrected names are different, so this isn't a case of overwriting (the box for which in the Arrange Audio profile is unchecked). This is deleting the files that were the source files for the converter when using that profile.
Given the potential for more errors making things worse or causing the converted files to get "lost" somewhere, I'd rather have the option to leave the unconverted files alone, I'd prefer to manually delete them once I'm sure the conversions came out correctly. From a long history of seeing batch operations that deleted the source go awry and create disasters of one type or another (I've been in the IT business since the days of Fortran in the 1960s) I prefer them to be as non-destructive as possible. To the point where if the Arrange Audio function can't be changed to not delete the source, I'll end up copying the erroneous source files somewhere so I've still got them until I'm 200 percent sure the conversion is working correctly.
Am I missing something, is there already somewhere to have this DSP leave the unconverted source files as well as generate the new corrected generated files? (which to my mind should be the default.) Or can I make this a high priority wish list item?
Thanks
John
Given the potential for more errors making things worse or causing the converted files to get "lost" somewhere, I'd rather have the option to leave the unconverted files alone, I'd prefer to manually delete them once I'm sure the conversions came out correctly. From a long history of seeing batch operations that deleted the source go awry and create disasters of one type or another (I've been in the IT business since the days of Fortran in the 1960s) I prefer them to be as non-destructive as possible. To the point where if the Arrange Audio function can't be changed to not delete the source, I'll end up copying the erroneous source files somewhere so I've still got them until I'm 200 percent sure the conversion is working correctly.
Am I missing something, is there already somewhere to have this DSP leave the unconverted source files as well as generate the new corrected generated files? (which to my mind should be the default.) Or can I make this a high priority wish list item?
Thanks
John
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