leather-guy opened this issue on Jan 25, 2009 · 5 posts
leather-guy posted Sun, 25 January 2009 at 2:03 PM
Hi. This is totally OT, but I'm hoping someone here knows something that will help.
When I create a picture or a design for my 2d and 3d projects, I do a series of screen caps of the process using a utility that assigns sequential numeric file names (0001, 0002, 0003, etc.) I usually direct each set of project captures into a named project folder (KingKongGirl, DragonInTheStreets, ShiskaBobTheGhost, etc ) . I now have about 750 or so of these folders, and I need to cosolidate selected contents into common folders for another project without file name conflict, and tagged with original project name.
What I'm hoping to find, is a utility or batch file, etc that will rename the files in the folders by appending the file name as a suffix, so the files are renamed "KingKongGirl001, KingKongGirl002, etc"
I could just use MultiRen or Bulk Renamer on a folder-by-folder basis, but a utility that would automate this would save me tons of time and typing.
Anyone know of such a utility? Or possibly even a DOS batch file? (I'm on XP)
Thanks for any help.
Jerry
ghonma posted Sun, 25 January 2009 at 2:49 PM
If you have bulk rename, you can just use the 'append folder name' option in it.
leather-guy posted Sun, 25 January 2009 at 3:28 PM
"Append Folder Name" isn't an option in the Bulk Rename Utility I've been using (2003), but I just visited their web page and downloaded the most recent version and, yes, there it is!
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/
It doesn't completely automate the process, but it does reduce it to a few clicks per folder.
Many thanks for the tip - I sometimes for get that even free utilities get upgrades from time to time.
Jerry
ghonma posted Sun, 25 January 2009 at 3:42 PM
You dont need to do all folders manually. Just put all your folders into a new folder, run bulkrename on it with subfolders checked and it will run through all the files in there, appending the name of each folder to them.
leather-guy posted Sun, 25 January 2009 at 4:21 PM
Yep, just found that option, This version is WAY faster and more powerful than the one I've used the last few years.
Renamed 97,000 files in the last few minutes.
All done now.
Thanks again for the tip!
Jerry
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