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KEAlt's avatar
KEAlt
New member | Level 1
10 months ago

Naming conventions are sometimes buggy in subfolders.

I have a parent folder with an automation that's supposed to rename every file in its subfolders to a certain format, but it's been very buggy on if it actually works or not... I don't know if it's ...
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Jay's avatar
Jay
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10 months ago

After testing this some more, when you apply a naming convention, it becomes an automation immediately for that folder, and subfolders if you've enabled that feature. 

Could you attach a screenshot showing the options you get on the parent folder?

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TKEotK
Explorer | Level 4
10 months ago

It only has the automation option, not the other 2...

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