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Title: Batch file rename?
Post by: HaRuMaN on September 22, 2010, 11:41:33 am

Anyone know of a utility that will allow for batch file renaming?

Title: Re: Batch file rename?
Post by: Thenasty on September 23, 2010, 11:34:35 am

try this

Title: Re: Batch file rename?
Post by: RayB on September 26, 2010, 03:33:35 pm

You can also use good old Command Line RENAME with wildcards

Title: Re: Batch file rename?
Post by: HaRuMaN on September 26, 2010, 07:09:23 pm

Quote from: RayB on September 26, 2010, 03:33:35 pm

You can also use good old Command Line RENAME with wildcards

That's what I ended up doing.  I wrote a batch file using RENAME

Title: Re: Batch file rename?
Post by: shmokes on September 28, 2010, 02:30:07 am

You can just highlight a bunch of files in Windows Explorer, right-click, click rename.  Windows will add increasing numbers in parenthesis after each file name.

Title: Re: Batch file rename?
Post by: HaRuMaN on September 28, 2010, 10:26:24 am

Quote from: shmokes on September 28, 2010, 02:30:07 am

You can just highlight a bunch of files in Windows Explorer, right-click, click rename.  Windows will add increasing numbers in parenthesis after each file name.

Yeah, but that wouldn't have worked for my particular problem.  I was renaming files for a data reduction tool that doesn't like parenthesis in file names...

Title: Re: Batch file rename?
Post by: upprc04 on September 28, 2010, 02:15:54 pm

I had good results with http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php. (http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php.)  I was able to remove all the numbers from the end of screenshots to use for my NES snaps.  It also looks like it will have several other useful renaming features.