Mass file re-naming

[Joshsti_NZ]

Just been googling for about 20mins, all the programs I found on there are either too old and crappy for WinXP or they're just crap full stop.

Any ideas/tips etc on what you guys use?

By mass re-naming I mean selecting a folder and making all the filenames inside that folder "jessica_alba_1 - jessica_alba_99" etc

Thanks :D

[Oblivian]

mmm Alba *ahem*
Could try Acdsee, it has a batch renamer. Else this wee util (http://www.1-4a.com/rename/) might do it for ya.

[mird-OC]

i use NameWiz (http://www.softbytelabs.com/Frames.html?f1=Banner.html&f2=NameWiz/index.html)... it's only a 30-day trial but it'll do the job and you can always be a dishonest wanker and circumvent the time limit.

[-=DEI[]v[]OS=-]

Ok this sounds WAY too easy to be what you need, but all I do is ctrl - A to select all , then right click and select rename.....then just type jessica_alba and hit enter.

XP.....well my XP then seems to just name them just how you want.... well actually it'd rename them jessica_alba(1), jessica_alba(2) etc etc.

[CommanderK]

I use Magic File Renamer (http://mfr.queryweb.com/download.html) all the time.

Edit: But I have version 3

[Joshsti_NZ]

Thanks for the input guys, I actually came across "Batch RENAME .EXE" a little while ago

Deimos, I just tried that, thats all I really needed actually, and it works! *slaps self around a bit*

[Ragnor]

It's really suprising how many people just don't know how to mass rename, manage files, change windows folder options to suit etc etc.

Anyway I think you're not so hot at searching josh :D ;) :p, first site on the list tells you how to use the inbuilt group rename among other things:

http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+xp+file+renaming

[Tiggerz]

Ah, the old pRon collection renaming thing...


Not that I would know anything about that.. But sometimes I rename files from my digicam.. I just write a quick C# program to read the files from a directory and rename them.


string dest = @"whatever\the\directory";
Directory.SetCurrentDirectory( dest );

DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo( dest );
foreach ( FileSystemInfo entry in dir.GetFileSystemInfos() )
{
do the rename.
}

Thats all there really is to it.

[PackMule]

I used to use Photoshop to batch process files - fixing the colours and so forth, and then rename them and save them in a new directory.