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Hi, I have a problem. I'm working with files and I was wondering if could you add a new action.

- Rename File

Hi,

You can use action Move Files to rename a file.

Regards,
Martin

Ok, thanks

How can I rename a set of files if I don't know the file names but only the directory where those files will be stored?
It's possible to use some wildcard?

Thank you

wfrcrd wrote:How can I rename a set of files if I don't know the file names but only the directory where those files will be stored?
It's possible to use some wildcard?

You can use the action Init Variable File List (which supports wildcards) to store the names of the files in a list and then iterate through the list and rename those files.

kintrupf wrote:

wfrcrd wrote:How can I rename a set of files if I don't know the file names but only the directory where those files will be stored?
It's possible to use some wildcard?

You can use the action Init Variable File List (which supports wildcards) to store the names of the files in a list and then iterate through the list and rename those files.

Thank you for the answer but I'm not good to use variables, and I'm a very beginner ,may I ask you some more help?
I have a trigger wich works "file observer" and the I set the action Init variable list as you can see on the image.
What I should expect? A file in that location called "source.tx(t) (it miss the last t).
I can't find nothing.
And how can I use those list (when I'll find it!)

Thanks a lot

wfrcrd wrote:I have a trigger wich works "file observer" and the I set the action Init variable list as you can see on the image.

It would be probably best if you'd tell us what the ultimate goal of your flow is. That way, we might help you better!

Yes sure, I have several pourposes, one example:

there are different apps wich produces images on different location,
I'd like to put all the images in the same directory and then rename all those images.

Take a look at the following flow. I made it sometime ago to create a daily backup of every flow on my phone and store the three most recent of those in my Dropbox.
You'll fine plenty of variable usage there (all things within curly braces are variables), and also a lot of file manipulation, including iterating over a list of files. If you have any more questions I'm happy to help!

Ehm.. it seems very complicated to me, expecially because it's not so simple to me to translate the xml text to a
flow interface, I'll try it and then I will have a lot of question..

See you soon and
Thanks a lot.