FileBot

Posted: **19 Aug 2018, 01:14**

Recently I reinstalled Win10 and bought the FileBot version from the Windows store, primarily due to its awesome Photo/Video renaming ability (I really think this should not be hidden anymore).

Initially this worked great. Then, all of a sudden Date.Parse has stopped working, breaking most of my scripts.

E.g.

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{Date.parse('dd-MM-yyyy', '19-08-2018')}

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Expression yields empty value: No signature of method: static java.util.Date.parse() is applicable for argument types: (String, String) values: [dd-MM-yyyy, 19-08-2018]
Possible solutions: parse(java.lang.String), wait(), clone(), grep(), any(), use(java.util.List, groovy.lang.Closure)

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To me this looks like Date.parse(string one, sting two) is no longer in the Java API.

Filebot appears to be a Desktop Bridge app with an embedded version of Java, so I do not know why this would happen. Any ideas?

I've tried - reinstalling Filebot, deleting all AppData/ProgramData dirs, Installing full Java from the Web (not that this should be required), uninstalling it using Java's tool.

Posted: **19 Aug 2018, 05:00**

Looks like the Groovy runtime changed in a few strange places in backwards-incompatible ways... I'll fix this use case for the next version.

In the meanwhile, you can use this:

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new java.text.SimpleDateFormat('dd-MM-yyyy').parse('19-08-2018')

Posted: **19 Aug 2018, 07:52**

Thanks, worked great for getting the real date from Timer videos:

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{new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ").parse(media.comapplequicktimecreationdate)}

Posted: **19 Aug 2018, 08:29**

Do you mind sending me a sample file? I might be able to add some built-in bindings for this use case in future versions.

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