Re: renaming files
Posted by
Citron, Bruce on
Jun 07, 2008; 6:30pm
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Bruce A. Citron, Ph.D., Dir., Lab of Molecular Biology, Bay Pines VA
Healthcare System, Res. & Dev. 151
On 6/6/08 12:50 , "William O'Connell" <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> This is a bit off-topic, but I wonder if anyone has experience using the
> File.renameTo command. T'll typically be renaming 20 or so files at a time.
> Maybe 80% of renames will be successful. Multiple attempts will not change
> the outcome. For a particular file, either the rename will succeed or it
> won't. Renames that fail are usually for files of several megabytes, large
> by my standards. Here's some of the code:
>
> FileInfo fi = imp.getOriginalFileInfo();
> String oldName = fi.directory + fi.fileName;
> File oldFile = new File(oldName);
> .....
> String title = patientID + sep + view + sep + acqDate;
> String newName = fi.directory + title + selected_file_ext;
> boolean renamed = oldFile.renameTo(new File(newName));
> IJ.wait(100);
> if(!renamed)
> IJ.log(oldFile.getName() + " ==> " + title + ": renamed? = "
> + renamed);