[Added] Placeholders fileFormat and fileFormatUppercase for folder naming of Quick Conversion

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[Added] Placeholders fileFormat and fileFormatUppercase for folder naming of Quick Conversion

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[Added] QuickConvert dropdown menu gets options to include batch-name and quality-parameter into file/folder name implemented a custom name with static text plus placeholders (= variables) for the subfolder name used for converted files or the subfolder name for moved original files.

This is a request to introduce these missing placeholders:
• &fileFormatExt;
• &fileFormatExtUppercase;

Remarks:
• This simply is the corresponding file extension of the chosen file format of the quick conversion in lower case (by default) or upper case.
• If the parser supports case sensitive differentiation then I'd prefer &ext; and &EXT; for brevity.

For example folder name "&fileFormatExtUppercase; &batchname; q&quality;" would yield instances like:
• JPG 50pc q60
• WEBP 1280max q80
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Re: Placeholders fileFormat and fileFormatUppercase for folder naming of Quick Conversion

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@forum_adm : A response would be appreciated.
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Re: Placeholders fileFormat and fileFormatUppercase for folder naming of Quick Conversion

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I added it to build 5678.
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Re: Placeholders fileFormat and fileFormatUppercase for folder naming of Quick Conversion

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Tested in build 5681. Worked perfectly:
✅ in the preview of the destination folder name in context menu
✅ and in the created folder name when executed

To complete this feature, please improve the help text from:
&fileFormatExt; - lowercase file format extensions
&fileFormatExtUppercase; - uppercase file format extensions
To new text:
&fileFormatExt; — File extension of the chosen output format in lowercase.
&fileFormatExtUppercase; — File extension of the chosen output format in uppercase.
Rationale:
- "extensions" (plural) is wrong b/c in one conversion there's always only one output format, hence definitive article "the" to be absolutely clear on this.
- Please change all separators in the help text from "-" (minus) to a long dash "—" or double minus "--" to be clearly recognizable as a separator.
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Re: Placeholders fileFormat and fileFormatUppercase for folder naming of Quick Conversion

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Added with build 6391
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Re: [Added] Placeholders fileFormat and fileFormatUppercase for folder naming of Quick Conversion

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✅ The placeholder help text got updated!

❌ Noted one more usability issue: The menu entry "Set Subfolder Name…" is not ideal.

The followup dialog allows to set both the naming pattern for the "Subfolder" and for the "Originals Folder".

New name: "Set Folder Names…"
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