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11-24-2012, 09:41 AM
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a "/" in a region name creates a new folder when rendering region with $regionname
I just noted that when you do a region render using the $regionname wildcard, and when there is a slash "/" in the region name, a new folder is created.
I don't know if this is an expected behavior or if it should be replaced with another character?
This happened with Reaper x64 on Win7x64.
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12-01-2012, 10:08 AM
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Just bumping my question to know if this is a bug, a "live with it" problem, or an expected behavior
Anyone?
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12-01-2012, 12:41 PM
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yeah don't put slashes there :-)
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12-01-2012, 02:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Coachz
yeah don't put slashes there :-)
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I hope the devs can fix me
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12-01-2012, 03:20 PM
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its a BAD idea. filenames cannot have slashes in them
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12-01-2012, 04:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by miche
I hope the devs can fix me
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As coachz says, that's an illegal filename character. The only thing they could do to fix is replace it with another character which you can already do when you name the file.
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The following characters are invalid as file or folder names on Windows using NTFS:
/ ? < > \ : * | ” and any character you can type with the Ctrl key
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It is however legal as a folder delimiter thus the reason it creates the folder, you told it to of sorts. Try to rename a text file on your desktop to something with a slash, it won't let you.
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12-02-2012, 10:30 AM
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I agree with both of you, slashes are not expected in file names. My question was more general:
Region names are not necessarily meant to be file names, and therefore it is not "illegal" to have a slash in there. If for whatever reason, at some time, you need to do a render of those regions including their name for clarity, are you really supposed to remove them all manually?
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12-02-2012, 10:46 AM
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on the other hand that could be cool...
you could render the region with a new rpp into a directory if you want....
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12-02-2012, 10:49 AM
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I come from the perspective that i'm going to render my regions to files and /'s are not allowed so i don't put them in the regions.
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12-02-2012, 12:30 PM
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/ *is* allowed in pathnames. But indicates a change in directory. foo/bar is a file bar in a directory foo. It is always nice to be able to use this shorthand rather than tediously create directories and then populate them.
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12-02-2012, 01:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by miche
I agree with both of you, slashes are not expected in file names. My question was more general:
Region names are not necessarily meant to be file names, and therefore it is not "illegal" to have a slash in there. If for whatever reason, at some time, you need to do a render of those regions including their name for clarity, are you really supposed to remove them all manually?
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Knowing I may be rendering them, I would never use a slash to begin with. Actually, due to the illegality of them in filenames, I simply don't use / or \ in anything that could ever be a filename because I know I'll eventually get bitten. I would imagine Reaper creates the folder if it doesn't exist which really makes it a feature allowing you to create the folder as part of the process instead of pre-creating them. Quite handy if you think of the possiblilities.
Last edited by karbomusic; 12-02-2012 at 01:51 PM.
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12-27-2012, 05:43 AM
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I think it's safe to say that using "\" or "/" is bad practice, due to them being invalid characters for file names.
I recommend using these:
{ }
[ ]
-
_
These are what I use and I don't have any problems with them.
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