Comments on: How to quickly rename a zillion files

By: Steven Clapham

Steven Clapham — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:42:16 +0000

For Windows Users you can try Quick File Rename, it's pretty good!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:28:28 +0000

There’s also R-Name for Mac.

By: ney frota

ney frota — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:42:47 +0000

(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 ):

By: Abe Serrano

Abe Serrano — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:26:40 +0000

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.

By: Chanpory

Chanpory — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:11:01 +0000

@Marc and James, Thanks for pointing out some other options!

By: spike

spike — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:40:07 +0000

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.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:28:59 +0000

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

By: pixel

pixel — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:50:57 +0000

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.

By: James Dasher

James Dasher — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:41:09 +0000

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/

By: Aaron Bassett

Aaron Bassett — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:39:01 +0000

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.