Bug 72 – Export Multiple success dialogue: untitled files after the first should still include "untitled" or "empty" in the name

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Bug 72 - Export Multiple success dialogue: untitled files after the first should still include "untitled" or "empty" in the name


Summary:	Export Multiple success dialogue: untitled files after the first should still...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Audacity
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Application Core
Version:	1.3.11
Hardware:	Per OS All

Importance:	P4 Repeatable
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Reported:	2010-01-28 15:14 UTC by James Crook
Modified:	2018-08-20 11:45 UTC (History)
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Closed:	2018-08-20 00:00:00

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Description James Crook 2010-01-28 15:14:24 UTC

* GA: Since there is no other specific information to help users who have left just one label blank, I wondered if we should replace "untitled" with "empty_label" which makes it clear? I think people would prefer that the second and subsequent files included "empty_label" or "untitled" though. So, "empty_label.wav", "empty_label-2.wav" and so on. Is that easily done? I do think "empty_label-1.wav" for the first file "would" have been better, given we adopt this -1, -2, -3 ... scheme for "numbering consecutively".
    * LL: Not sure if "empty_label" would work if there are other cases when a blank filename were possible. I can't think of any off hand though, so if you can't either, we'll change it to "empty_label". The problem with having "-1" is that it really isn't a counter of the label being exported, it's a counter of what files already exist with the name. But, let me fiddle with it a bit. I think I have a solution.

Comment 1 James Crook 2010-02-12 11:30:31 UTC

Fix applied.  Behaviour with three blank labels is now:

Using Label names:
untitled.wav
untitled-2.wav
untitled-3.wav

Using Numbering before Label name:
01-untitled.wav
02-untitled.wav
03-untitled.wav

Using Numbering after Label name:
Prefix-01.wav
Prefix-02.wav
Prefix-03.wav


There is a general point about name collisions whether we should give the first file a number too.  I think not is fine.

Comment 2 Gale Andrews 2010-02-24 20:44:19 UTC

Confirmed fixed on all three platforms