Hi All,

I am trying to rename lot's of files (thousands in fact) but not all in one go, a folder at a time (about 30 folders)...

My question is regarding a tool that can rename these files in such a way that when they are renamed, they must be in the same order as in windows explorer (referring to the sort order I gave before renaming them) this is all because they are being added to a description file...So in a nutshell, the files need to be in the same exact order when they are renamed (as they were before they were renamed) because the original filenames will be stored in a text file that was made before the renaming process. I hope you understand what I am getting at. If you have a better (re) naming convention, please advise.

Thank you!
-Brian

I found one that will do, it's called Smart Rename, I found it at this site:

http://mgccl.com/2007/12/29/smartrename-batch-renaming-tool-for-windows

Here's the downlod link for anyone who wishes to use it.

http://mgccl.com/files/smartrename.zip

Btw, it's all english, no chinese.

Enjoy!

Actually, No this didn't do what I wanted, but it was as close as I could possibly want without getting it done...What I realize now, is that I could do this very simply if I was able to export BOTH columns to text so that the end result would be:

Old File Name.old New File Name.new
Old File Name.old New File Name.new
Old File Name.old New File Name.new
Old File Name.old New File Name.new

Notice how the old names and new names are in one row? That is how I need the file to display them. 1 per row (1 old + 1 new)

Thanks again!
-Brian

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do but, whenever I need to rename a large number of files, I just scribble up a quick and dirty bash script.

I do the same - get a list of files, and rename them per some logic. The files themselves are apart from the sort order. The only way to keep them synced is to generate a new file name based on the old one.

Sounds like it would be a lot easier in a db. That being said:

Rename the line in a text file with 1000String. Next line 1001String etc.

Then when you pull the string from the txt file, first grab the first 4 digits, thats your sort order, then the grab the 5th character to the end. That's your file name.

Flat files are good for speed, but it still sounds like its time for you to put this in a db if I understand your question correctly.