Comments on: Quickly re-name your files with Mess Rename

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:57:00 +0000

IrfanView will also bulk rename files, both through it's GUI and it's CLI mode. I used to use it extensively until I ran across BulkRename, as mentioned earlier. It's massive and very intimidating but once you get used to it, it's cool.

This one does look super simple, though. I wonder if it required installation or if it's portable.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:57:00 +0000

IrfanView will also bulk rename files, both through it’s GUI and it’s CLI mode. I used to use it extensively until I ran across BulkRename, as mentioned earlier. It’s massive and very intimidating but once you get used to it, it’s cool.

This one does look super simple, though. I wonder if it required installation or if it’s portable.

By: Lee McKusick

Lee McKusick — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:01:00 +0000

If you have it, Adobe Bridge will also allow you to do this.

Batch Rename, under Tools (or Ctrl+Shift+R) will bring up a dialog box that will rename, move and rename, or copy and rename, and you can customize the resulting filenames in a ton of different ways (include folder name, metadata, etc).

By: Lee McKusick

Lee McKusick — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:01:00 +0000

If you have it, Adobe Bridge will also allow you to do this.
Batch Rename, under Tools (or Ctrl+Shift+R) will bring up a dialog box that will rename, move and rename, or copy and rename, and you can customize the resulting filenames in a ton of different ways (include folder name, metadata, etc).

By: Christian Kirchhoff

Christian Kirchhoff — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:24:00 +0000

I prefer the Bulk Rename Utility. It seems it has like the biggest number of options and possibilities for changing filenames.

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:23:00 +0000

I use straight windows and no 3rd party applications. A fellow blogger showed me the light. You can do it in any Windows file browser by selecting all your files right clicking the first one and making a slight modification. It will propagate down the line incrementing as you go.

Check out the full details here:

http://www.asktheadmin.com/2007/12/i-have-hundres…

By: Christian Kirchhoff

Christian Kirchhoff — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:24:49 +0000

I prefer the Bulk Rename Utility. It seems it has like the biggest number of options and possibilities for changing filenames.

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:23:20 +0000

Check out the full details here:

http://www.asktheadmin.com/2007/12/i-have-hundres…

By: Homercleese

Homercleese — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:43:00 +0000

I use Lupas Rename 2000 for bulk renames. Not all that pretty to look at but free,, and has a lot of functions.

By: Homercleese

Homercleese — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:43:00 +0000

I use Lupas Rename 2000 for bulk renames. Not all that pretty to look at but free,, and has a lot of functions.

By: Marc-O

Marc-O — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:55:00 +0000

I'm using a function of filemenu tools to do that job, software I found on this excellent blog: http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/07/change-right-cli...

By: tom

tom — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:36:00 +0000

I'v been using a perl script called rename (http://search.cpan.org/~pederst/rename-1.4/) for while.

You use perl regular expressions.

rename 's/^([1-9])/01/'

put a leading 0 on all numbered files not starting with 0