Thursday, January 31, 2008

Helper Apps: Batch Rename Tool

Here's a simple program that let's you rename a bunch of files at the same time. You can use data types like string, date, counter, left, right, creation date, modified date, access date, and size.

This is how it works you have about 5 fields that you can choose from for each of these types so you can stack them together.

ex:


Would yield files like:
Hawaii_07-10-15-01.jpg
Hawaii_07-10-15-02.jpg
Hawaii_07-10-15-03.jpg
Hawaii_07-10-15-04.jpg
Hawaii_07-10-15-05.jpg
Hawaii_07-10-15-06.jpg

This program works on any file format.
String is for text

Left is the amount of characters you want to copy from the curren file name starting from the left

Right is the amount of characters you want to copy from the current file name starting from the right

The rest of the options are self explanatory.

Tip: When renaming pictures add the creation date so that way you will always know when the picture was taken just by looking at the filename.

2 comments:

Jessica 'Wild' said...

Thanks. this is quite helpful especially when trying to organize hundreds of pics for a slideshow from different people without mixing them.

Jessica 'Wild' said...

Since Feb I have not only renamed my pics but also fixed a huge quarantine issue I was having that locked up all of my files. I had thousands of files that were unreadable. This program allowed me to search and replace the unwanted segments of the file names. Thanks again for the info. Keep it coming.