How to manage file name containing a date with /

[André Bisseret]

Thanks you very much Mark and Thomas.

I was set to finding what character was hidden under this bizarre "dot"!
Thanks to you two I am changing my mind and I will rename the files.

If the doctor was to be working still for years I would adopt the suggestion from Thomas: changing the names of all the files in the big "DOCS BASE"
But as he is retiring in a few months, and the app he is using works very well on his mac, i think I will keep the main app as it is and adopt the solution suggested by Mark for the new small app : just changing the filenames in the script of the button "create transfer folder".
such as the new doctors get the expected behavior if they are working on Windows.

Also thanks to the others who paid attention to my problem.
A special "thank you" to Dar for his kind patience!

André

Le 23 juil. 2013 à 21:11, Mark Wieder a écrit :

> André-
> 
> Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 11:26:43 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> One click on a specific button "create transfert folder" create
>> the folder that will be dragged on the USB key of the patient
> 
> My guess on this:
> 
> in the script of that button, transform the filenames into something
> less troublesome, probably converting the slashes to underscores, in
> the folder on the usb drive and set the TitreDuDoc property of the
> appropriate image. That way your standalone app on whatever platform
> will be able to load the documents, and the original documents in the
> "DOCS BASE" folder can keep the original names.
> 
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder

Le 23 juil. 2013 à 21:13, Thomas McGrath III a écrit :

> André
> 
> I don't know how to make windows recognize the "/" but you are in luck that the Mac can see them.
> 
> Others might have a better approach but if it were my project I would 'bite the bullet' as it were and build a quick and dirty tool in LC on the Mac and rename/fix all of those file names at once and then include them with the app so you can move on to writing your main app for the client. A pain but doable and once done you don't have to deal with this again.
> 
> if tFilename contains "/" then replace "/" with "_" in tFilename -- should do the trick when processing each line of the files in folder "DOCS BASE"
> 
> Wish you luck on this
> 
> Tom
> 
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> mcgrath3 at mac.com
> 
> On Jul 23, 2013, at 2:26 PM, André Bisseret <andre.bisseret at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks a lot Thomas for your precise questions; that help me a lot to better explain my problem.
>> That's what I am trying below. 
> 
>