Chanpory Rith
Aug 16, 2007
Ever had to rename a bunch of files one by one? It’s tedious, time-draining, and soul-sucking. Next time, use Renamer4Mac.
This powerful utility lets you rename any number of files or folders at once. Features include all sorts of naming voodoo: search & replace, insert & overwrite, enumeration, and capitalization. Advanced geeks can rejoice, because it also supports regular expressions. All this and an elegant live filename preview of make this freeware app a necessity in every designer’s arsenal.
Windows users, I haven’t forgotten you. Check out Rename-It!
11 Comments
Marc
8:08 am
Good topic. Also, Linux users may want to know about apps like Krename or pyRenamer.
http://www.krename.net/Screenshots.11.0.html
http://www.infinicode.org/code/pyrenamer/index.php#screenshots
Aaron Bassett
8:39 am
I’m a bit hardcore/old school when it comes to these kinds of things.
I still prefer to write a quick script in php which I can run locally to batch rename, and with the likes of the GD library I can also deal with image resizing etc.
James Dasher
8:41 am
Another one for windows users, that I have been using and found to be excellent and very powerful is PFrank: http://www3.telus.net/pfrank/
pixel
11:50 am
In such cases I simply use Automator, which is shipped with Mac OS X Tiger :) Simply drag “Rename Finder Items” to your workspace, and you’re ready to go. If you’ll google, you’ll find Automator extension, that adds regular expression support.
Jason
12:28 pm
This is exactly what I was looking for last week, and the ability to live preview is without a doubt the piece that takes this way beyond automator and home-brewed scripts.
Thanks
spike
12:40 pm
Will have to check this out. For better or for worse I like to edit music file names and id3 tags by hand. Having to edit file names of entire albums to my own personal preference can be very tedious though.
Chanpory
9:11 am
@Marc and James, Thanks for pointing out some other options!
Abe Serrano
4:26 pm
When I first came across this I thought it was nice to know about, but never thought I would use it. Turns out I have thousands of files to rename this week. Thanks for saving me several hours of frustration.
ney frota
9:42 pm
(win) select many files, hit F2, write a name, press enter! All selected files will get the name and a sequence number. perfect to rename just downloaded fotos. (i what that on my ubuntu too ):
Anonymous
11:28 pm
There’s also R-Name for Mac.
Steven Clapham
12:42 am
For Windows Users you can try Quick File Rename, it’s pretty good!