Then I can tell it what to replace with, and before anything happens, I can see right there in the window if it’s going to work as I want it. First, you can enter your regular expression to match. That’s when I pulled out Bulk Rename Utility. What I wanted to do was to try and standardize them. So some of the invoices had a date, some had a name, some had a number, some had all three (or a combination of the other two). Unfortunately, when I created them, I had a bad habit of not keeping to a standard.
Over the last three-plus years, I had collected a number of invoices from my Movable Type Consulting business. It certainly could do everything that I needed and then some. In fact, it will probably come with more than you need. This relatively small (less than 1MB) download comes feature-packed with just about everything you might need to rename a whole bunch of files. Then it happens that Windows doesn’t do regular expressions very well, and it looked like I would be renaming them all by hand. Doing those one at a time was daunting, to say the least, and maybe it was going to be worth figuring out the batch file after all. In fact, just the other day I needed to rename upwards of 450 files. But then there are the times when I have dozens upon dozens of files. Usually I find that it is just faster to rename the three or four (or ten) files that need renaming than it is to figure out how I can do it by writing a batch file – it just isn’t worth taking the time to dig up all the arcane commands that I’ve managed to forget over the years and make it happen. Hit up the link below to read more and grab a copy Bulk Rename Tool is free, Windows only.It isn’t often that I have to rename a ton of files. One tip that will save you an enormous amount of frustrating when you get started: make sure to highlight the files you want to change in the file preview window (located in the upper right corner) or else you won’t see the preview and won’t know if the changes you’re making in the control panel are yielding the file names you desire. That said, once you get comfortable using the interface it’s lightening fast and extremely flexible. The main panel is intimidatingly packed with toggles and variables you can alter this isn’t a one-click solution by any means.
It’s lightweight, insanely customizable, portable, and sure to make short work of any renaming task you throw at it.īulk Rename Tool is a great portable application (available as an installed version if you crave context menu integration) that blasts through file renaming tasks. There’s no need to settle for overly simplistic file renaming tools as long as Bulk Rename Tool is around.
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