What's new in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.7.5
Oct 14, 2011
- Fixed compatibility issues with Windows Vista
- Fixed minor bugs
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.7.4 (Oct 14, 2011)
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.7.3 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Added predefined tasks and QuickRename presets for renaming MP3 and JPEG files
- Enabled drag and drop of path addresses in all wizards
- Wizards now save last state on close
- Fixed a bug in scan mode, where deselected items are also processed
- Small changes and fixed minor bugs
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.7.2 (Oct 14, 2011)
- SearchBar has been removed from the Sponsored edition. The Sponsored edition now includes only Save!
- Added rule counter under the list of rules
- Fixed The RegEx text comparison behavior has been matched to NIYoW's configuration.
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.7.1 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Added an option to handle the whole filename (including the dot), instead of title and extension each separately.
- New rule: Miscellaneous - Make 'Title & Extension' affect full names
- "Create new name" rule can now set the whole filename at once instead of title or extension separately
- Fixed minor bugs
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.7.0 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Rename files and folders directly from Windows Explorer using the QuickRename © feature!
- Command line renaming using the '/quickrename' option 'Apply-Before-Update' tools in the ID3 tag editor
- Added new parameter to the 'Set exceptions list' rule to specify whether to include skipped words in counting of advanced renaming rules
- Undo last renaming task even if NIYoW was closed.
- 'ID3 Tag Editor' redesigned and the processing speed significantly improved.
- Illegal operation when trying to rename files with hidden characters
- Some MP3 tasks in the renaming wizard gives empty results
- Pressing the 'Edit ID3' button when no files selected using Scan mode results in a crash
- Default characters in the 'Set word separators' rule included illegal characters
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.6.2 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Added support for Karaoke Midi files
- Added the Disaster Recovery feature
- Added command line options
- Scan Mode's folder explorer and Add Folder window are now resizable
- Fixed small bugs
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.6.1 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Added rule to find and replace text using Regular expressions (Requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or above)
- Added rule to set the name as line from a text file
- The Tag Generator is now even simpler with a new set of generating presets
- Duplicate names rules now also checks for physical duplicates on the disk
- Fixed some CJK fonts display bugs
- Fixed other small bugs
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.6.0 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Automatically set the time & date of multiple files using 8 different sources
- Retrieve information from MS Office documents: Author, Title, Company, etc
- Set information of single/multiple documents at once!
- New rule: Add text at position
- Drag and drop folders from Explorer to the folder field or type it manually
- View report after setting collection attributes
- Added the Anti-duplicate feature as a rule
- Optimization of all inner functions!
- Fixed small bugs
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.5.2 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Change the time stamp of files and folders in batch!
- Show a preview of JPEG files in the properties window
- Check for updates online
- Added new rule to pad numbers with custom character/string
- Retrieve JPEG date values in 3 different formats
- Retrieve JPEG time values in 2 different formats
- Small bug fixes
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.5.1 (Oct 14, 2011)
- New variablesto generate random numbers/letters
- Fixed a bug in folders explorer where CJK fonts could not be shown correctly
- Some other small fixes
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.5.0 (Oct 14, 2011)
- New registration code. Will be automatically delivered to all registered users
- Support for JPEG digital images. Retrieve information such as image dimensions, resolution, date taken, shutter speed, etc.
- Two major changes to the system of rules:
- New rule: "Skip rule if causing validation error"
- New condition in variables. The "ELSE" condition for creating alternative variables in a single rule. Example: %id3v1_title ELSE id3v2_title%
- Added a new variable, the %const=text% for use in conjunction with the "ELSE" condition in variables
- View summary information of MP3, JPEG and Midi files in the properties window and also navigate between the files
- Add optional comments to rules
- New parameter to the "Create new names from list" to specify the first line in the file to start reading from
- Sort names by numeric value
- Remove successfully renamed files from list after renaming
- Associated .RLS files with NIYoW + Drag & Drop .RLS files into the list of rules
- 'Add/Edit Rule' is now in a separate window!
- Two new parameter controls in the Add Rule window: radio buttons & browsing
- Reorder or rules in categories (rule sets with reordered rules has to be rebuilt)
- Edit/Duplicate existing rules in the Tag Generating wizard
- Enhancement of all checkbox selection in wizards
- Updated the folder explorer (is now like windows explorer)
- Multiselection in the Added Rules list
- The rule "Create new names from list" wasn't processed for the last item in the list
- Some rules were skipped even if they are checked or are giving different values when they are being edited
- Many other small fixes
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.4.1 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Set NIYoW as Always on Top
- New rule: 'Create new names from list' to import the new names from text file!
- Option to control the position of items in the List Mode. Useful when using rules such as the 'Create new names from list' and the Auto-Numbering rules
- New enhanced wizard!
- Improved checking support in the Scan Mode and the Rules List
- Bugs related to language support
- Bug caused omission of spaces of some midi fields
- Bug caused files dragged from Windows Explorer to be imported without extension
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.4.0 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Support for MIDI files, retrieve information such as track title, MIDI file format, tempo, etc
- Full report after renaming with detailed error handling
- Set attributes of files and folders from different locations in your computer in one action!
- Edit single item's properties such as name and attributes from within the program
- Drag & Drop files and folders from Windows Explorer directly to the list!
- Anti-Duplicates system to avoid creation of duplicated new names
- Physically remove files from within the program
- Remove dead links from list in one click
- New rule: 'Remove characters from position' to remove a specified number of characters from a specific location in the name
- The Sort by name rule can now sort items by the old name or the new name
- Filter search results by all attributes (not only by the hidden attribute as the older versions)
- Manually launch the instant preview to refresh the list
- The instant preview now has a progress bar too
- Improved help system. Press F1 in any place to view the related help topic
- Huge amount of improvements such as faster file and folder searching, preview generation and sorting, etc
- Small bug fixes
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.3.0 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Instant preview of new names:
- Automatic preview generation
- Overload sensor to detect long delays during preview
- Delay period before every preview generation
- Mark new names with colors according to their state
- Edit and duplicate existing rules
- Display full details of rules by tooltip
- Display full description of rule parameters by tooltip
- New rule: Set an exceptions list for the letters rules
- New rule: Add zero padding to numbers in the name
- The encoding of exported HTML files is now matched to the selected language
- Lots of bug and small enhancements
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.2.1 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Export lists to Text/HTML file
- Added a variable to retrieve the title of HTML files
- Added an option to set the characters that will act as word separators in the letters category
- Enhanced the rule of removing trailing spaces to be able to remove leading spaces too
- Fixed some bugs
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.2.0 (Oct 14, 2011)
- New enhanced rules system! (NIYoW Rules System v2.0, not compatible with older versions). Makes the rules system much easier to understand and comfortable to use
- New files and folders listing mode. Enables you to add items from several locations.
- New auto-numbering modes: Hexadecimal & Alphabetical
- Renaming of files and folders from list.
- New variable: Add the parent folder name (%parent_folder%)
- Added an Edit menu in the Preview window.
- Added check boxes to the list of rules, enables you to temporarily disable rules without the need to remove them
- List sorting is now available also as a rule
- Significantly improved the speed of list refresh after renaming
- Improved GUI capabilities, enabling you to control the size of the main
- Small bug fixes
New in Name It Your Way (NIYoW) 1.1.0 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Renaming of folders!
- Full support for all languages!
- New date and time variables!
- New set of icons! (by Mayan)
- Cycling tips on status bar!
- Fixed some bugs