Métamorphose is a graphical mass renaming program for files and folders.

These are the command line options:

-h,  --help       Show the help 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

What follows is for developers or those wishing to use the very latest version.

For binary (normal) installs, use the appropriate install file for your system (setup.exe, .deb, etc ...).

Cloning the sources from the remote:

git clone https://github.com/metamorphose/metamorphose2.git

Submodules are used, so after cloning don't forget to check them out:

git submodule init
git submodule update

• Python, version 2.6
• wxPython, version 2.8
• Python Imaging Library (PIL), version 1.1.6 or greater
• Mutagen, , version 1.15 or greater

Create or update the language files:

messages/update_langs.sh

Launch the application:

./metamorphose2

As root:

make build
make install

build makes the directory structure, install copies the sources and byte-compiles them.

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 access 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.

Remove the user-specific files here:

• Windows: C:Documents and SettingsUSERNAMEApplication Data.metamorphose2
• Linux/BSD: ~/.metamorphose2
• Mac: /Library/Application Support/.metamorphose2

In Linux & BSD, if you have the sources:

make remove

To remove all user files as well:

make remove remusr=1

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.<br/> 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.