DSXchange

Hello,

When I try renaming a job, the old logs (previous runs) disappear.
I need to rename jobs but I would like to keep the old logs in the Log View.

Is there a way to do that?

Thank you

Not officially that I ever saw or remember being discussed here. I suppose there's some 'under the covers' games you might be able to play, depending on where you have them stored - XMETA or hashed files. For the later, I could see copying out the contents pre-rename and then back into the new (empty) hashed file post-rename. Just a stray early morning thought. You'd have to lookup the old and new job number for that, since where they're stored is numbered, not named.

Thank you for your answer.

I thought about copying the contents of the folders but when I checked the project folders it didn't seem too easy to identify the exact files to be copied and replaced and where, and I tried it on a project with only 2 jobs, after running one of the jobs (so I knew exactly the files changed, by the timestamp)

It will be hard/impossible to do that for my main project, where we have hundreds of jobs to be renamed.

I'll still wait, maybe someone else encountered this problem in the past and found a solution.

Thank you

I would create a new project with a copy of all the old jobs and rename them all in the new project. Just leave the old project with old job names and job logs alone. Mark it as protected and change the project permissions if needed. Keep it around for reference.

Bahaus wrote:we have hundreds of jobs to be renamed

Should have led with that, I would have waited for a better answer too.