Métamorphose-2 Readme

Métamorphose-2 is currently in beta status.

This readme file is for those that wish to install the most recent version from source. For binary (normal) installs, use the appropriate install file for your system (setup.exe, .deb, etc ...).

Because Métamorphose is developed on Linux, there is more information available for that OS. Any non-specific information available here applies to all compatible operating systems.

Requirements


Obtaining the source files
Easiest way is too download the latest official releases.

If you are a little adventurous or want to contribute code to the project, you can get the very latest sources directly from Subversion (SVN): 

$ svn co https://file-folder-ren.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/file-folder-ren/metamorphose2
Please keep in mind the SVN snapshot changes on a weekly or daily basis - use at your own risk.


Installing from source
Unzip sources in desired location.
If you are using Linux or freeBSD, navigate to the directory and type (as root):

$ make all
or: 
$ make build
$ make install
(build makes the directory structure, install copies the sources and byte-compiles them.)


Launching the application
Execute 'metamorphose2.py' with Python interpreter within the 'metamorphose2' folder.

Under Linux & freeBSD:
The makefile should take care of everything for you, it is architecture and distro independant.
Métamorphose will be installed in /usr/share/metamorphose2, you can run it with 

$ metamorphose2
and the man page with 
$ man metamorphose2
If you are using a freedesktop.org compatible window manager (like Gnome or KDE), there should be an entry in 'Applications -> Accessories'.


Command line options 

Metamorphose is a graphical mass renaming program for files and folders.
However, there are some command line options :

-h,  --help       Show this screen and exit
-t,  --timer      Show time taken to complete operations
-d,  --debug      Show debugging information
-p=, --path=      Specify a directory to load
-c=, --config=    Specify a Metamorphose2 config file to load
-a=, --auto=      Specify automatic mode level (when also using -c option) :
                    0 = do not preview items (will overide preferences)
                    1 = auto preview items (will overide preferences)
                    2 = auto rename items
                    3 = auto rename items and exit on success
-l=, --language=  Overide prefered interface language :
                    en_US
                    fr

If no other options are given, you may specify a path to open :
$ metamorphose2 /srv/samba/Windows Likes Spaces


Removing Métamorphose
Sources (all):

In Linux & BSD, if you have the sources: 
$ make remove
To remove all user files as well: 
$ make remove remusr=1


Help the Métamorphose project


Known issues
Program locks up when 'walking' a large number of files/folders:
Not really locked up, but the time it takes to process entries can be long if you are loading many items. During this process the application doesn't refresh, giving the appearance of being locked up but is actually working on stuff.
The time in this state is dependent on your computer, whether the directory is on a local drive or a network share, and of course the number of items.
This will be addressed in a future release.

Unreadable picker items under Linux (possibly other GTK):
There seems to be a bug in wxGTK, the list can become slow and unreadable when dealing with large number of items (over 10 000).
A work around may be possible.

Thumbnails fail:
There seems to be some problems with python-imaging under windows. Sometimes the image will not load.