{"id":129,"date":"2010-11-20T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=129"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:22:11","slug":"os-x-finder-versioning-and-duplicating-files-or-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"OS X Finder versioning and duplicating files or folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out about the interesting file manipulating techniques in Finder file manager:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Option (ALT) + dragging the file or folder in its own parent folder<\/strong>: creates a new version of a file or folder by adding a consecutive number in the file or folder name.\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dragging a file named <strong>Thesis.doc<\/strong> to its parent folder (while holding down the Option key) creates a file named <strong>Thesis 2.doc<\/strong> <\/li>\n<li>If the extension of the file is more exotic (e.g. <strong>printer.ppd<\/strong>) it will add the consecutive number after the extension (e.g. <strong>printer.ppd 2<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>If the name of the file has the integer number preceded by the space (e.g. <strong>Thesis 2.doc<\/strong>) it will add the consecutive number (e.g. <strong>Thesis 3.doc<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>If the number is not integer or is not preceded by the space (e.g. <strong>Thesis2.doc<\/strong>, <strong>Thesis 1.3.doc<\/strong>) it will just add the number 2 to it (e.g. <strong>Thesis2 2.doc<\/strong>, <strong>Thesis 1.3 2.doc<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>If numbers are preceded by zeros (e.g. <strong>Thesis 002.doc<\/strong>, <strong>001.doc<\/strong>, <strong>00.doc<\/strong>) it will delete them (e.g. <strong>Thesis 3.doc<\/strong>, <strong>2.doc<\/strong>, <strong>1.doc<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>If multiple files are dragged and dropped (e.g. <strong>Thesis 2.doc, <\/strong><strong>Thesis 3.doc, <\/strong><strong>Thesis 4.doc<\/strong>), it will add consecutive numbers from the highest of them (e.g. <strong>Thesis 5.doc, <\/strong><strong>Thesis 6.doc, <\/strong><strong>Thesis 7.doc<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Command + D<\/strong>: creates a new file of folder and adds the word copy to it\n<p>E.g.: <strong>Thesis.doc<\/strong> will be copied in a new file named <strong>Thesis copy.doc<\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Original post at <a href=\"http:\/\/hints.macworld.com\/article.php?story=20090529194228820\">Mac OS X Hints<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out about the interesting file manipulating techniques in Finder file manager: Option (ALT) + dragging the file or folder in its own parent folder: creates a new version of a file or folder by adding a consecutive number in the file or folder name. Examples: Dragging a file named Thesis.doc to its&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-pim-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}