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<blockquote data-quote="Amen-Moses" data-source="post: 342575" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>What you are relying on here is at best an unintended feature of XPs poor file management and at worst a bug!</p><p></p><p>What you have basically told the file system to do is name a selection of files with exactly the same name, in order to protect you from your own stupidity the file system has appended an identifier to the name based upon the order it processes the files. </p><p></p><p>On a single threaded file system like XP this will exhibit the behaviour you describe and which you are relying on but in a multi threaded file system (which Microsoft may have provided in Vista - see below) and especially in a multi-core system the numbering will be all over the shop as the file renaming will process in parallel.</p><p></p><p>I tried out this "feature" on Vista and it does still work on the 32 bit Basic version under Parallels but when I tried it on the 32 bit Premium version on my AMD dual core system the results were sporadic to say the least. Presumably Parallels is simulating the single threaded file system of old rather than allowing Vista to multi thread, thus ensuring maximum compatibility with older applications.</p><p></p><p>A "proper" file system will never allow duplicate filenames and unfortunately for you the file system underlying OS X is just about the most "proper" one on the planet.</p><p></p><p>Maybe it's time to learn Perl and write script to do this task properly?</p><p></p><p>(Alternatively fork out some dosh for Parallels and keep a small XP installation to do this for you, you can even drag and drop files between OS X and XP under Parallels)</p><p></p><p>Amen-Moses</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amen-Moses, post: 342575, member: 114"] What you are relying on here is at best an unintended feature of XPs poor file management and at worst a bug! What you have basically told the file system to do is name a selection of files with exactly the same name, in order to protect you from your own stupidity the file system has appended an identifier to the name based upon the order it processes the files. On a single threaded file system like XP this will exhibit the behaviour you describe and which you are relying on but in a multi threaded file system (which Microsoft may have provided in Vista - see below) and especially in a multi-core system the numbering will be all over the shop as the file renaming will process in parallel. I tried out this "feature" on Vista and it does still work on the 32 bit Basic version under Parallels but when I tried it on the 32 bit Premium version on my AMD dual core system the results were sporadic to say the least. Presumably Parallels is simulating the single threaded file system of old rather than allowing Vista to multi thread, thus ensuring maximum compatibility with older applications. A "proper" file system will never allow duplicate filenames and unfortunately for you the file system underlying OS X is just about the most "proper" one on the planet. Maybe it's time to learn Perl and write script to do this task properly? (Alternatively fork out some dosh for Parallels and keep a small XP installation to do this for you, you can even drag and drop files between OS X and XP under Parallels) Amen-Moses [/QUOTE]
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