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hello,

i have a problem where i don´t know how to fix it.

got plenty of files with a certain naming, followed by a "(" directly after the last letter.
now i want to have a space inbetween.

could be so easy [change "(" into " (" ] if i wouldn´t have a large number of files, where the space is already existing.
if i´m doing it like mentioned above, i´ll get a double spacing, which is not allowed.

does anybody have an idea how to approach this problem?

e.g

existing file : track1(solo).mp3
should be : track1 (solo).mp3 [just 1 spacing inbetween]

cheers nam

You could then replace double spacing by a single spacing

Or else if you want to do exactly the change asked, that can be achieved using regular expressions.
On the regular expression action page, enter this as expression:
([^\s]+)\((.+)
and this as new name:
$1 ($2

Hello antp,

thanks for your hints!

"Replace double spacing by a single spacing"
So simple, so effective! i thought way to complicated!!!
And it works.

Changing by regular expression just worked for a single file.
Don´t know why it didn´t run through the other files.

But nevertheless, you helped me a lot

Thank you

Cheers Nam

Strange, it would be worth seeing what the other names look like, by curiosity