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Renaming many files at once but with different names



 
 
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Old November 25th 07, 03:07 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
remind
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Default Renaming many files at once but with different names

Hi all,
I know one can select within Win Explorer and highlight a bunch of files and
rename them all, so files called Project T Yellow Int 01, Project T Yellow
int 02, become Project T Yellow (1) Project T Yellow (02) etc.
But does anyone know if there is a program that would do the following.
e.g
Have 60 digital audio files, named
Project T Yellow 01
Project T Yellow 02
Project T Yellow 03, and so on up to Int 60.

I want to be able to change the Yellow to another word.
So I end up with 60 files looking like this

Project T Barry Int 01
Project T Barry Int 02
Project T Barry Int 03
and so on
Does this make sense?

Thanks in advance
Phil
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Old November 25th 07, 03:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
Dave T.[_2_]
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Default Renaming many files at once but with different names

remind wrote:
Hi all,
I know one can select within Win Explorer and highlight a bunch of files and
rename them all, so files called Project T Yellow Int 01, Project T Yellow
int 02, become Project T Yellow (1) Project T Yellow (02) etc.
But does anyone know if there is a program that would do the following.
e.g
Have 60 digital audio files, named
Project T Yellow 01
Project T Yellow 02
Project T Yellow 03, and so on up to Int 60.

I want to be able to change the Yellow to another word.
So I end up with 60 files looking like this

Project T Barry Int 01
Project T Barry Int 02
Project T Barry Int 03
and so on
Does this make sense?

Thanks in advance
Phil
ps you can email me if you wish at
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If I understand your question correctly...

Highlight all the files in question, right click, click rename, and
rename to Project T Barry Int. All the files will be then named Project
T Barry Int (01), Project T Barry Int (02), etc.

--
Dave T.

I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
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Old November 25th 07, 04:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
remind
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Default Renaming many files at once but with different names



"Dave T." wrote:

remind wrote:
Hi all,
I know one can select within Win Explorer and highlight a bunch of files and
rename them all, so files called Project T Yellow Int 01, Project T Yellow
int 02, become Project T Yellow (1) Project T Yellow (02) etc.
But does anyone know if there is a program that would do the following.
e.g
Have 60 digital audio files, named
Project T Yellow 01
Project T Yellow 02
Project T Yellow 03, and so on up to Int 60.

I want to be able to change the Yellow to another word.
So I end up with 60 files looking like this

Project T Barry Int 01
Project T Barry Int 02
Project T Barry Int 03
and so on
Does this make sense?

Thanks in advance
Phil
ps you can email me if you wish at
Just remove (nospam)


If I understand your question correctly...

Highlight all the files in question, right click, click rename, and
rename to Project T Barry Int. All the files will be then named Project
T Barry Int (01), Project T Barry Int (02), etc.

--
Dave T.

I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.


Hi Dave, yes except for the Brackets ( ) although they are not a problem if
they remain.
What I do I upload the files in compressed folders to a FTP site for our
typists to type them up and for privacy issues I call them by a job colour
rather a job name.
Now when I send them to client burnt to a CD, I need to rename the files
from the colour to the actual Project name. So the client knows which project
they are from.

Thanks
Phil

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Old November 25th 07, 04:28 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
Dave T.[_2_]
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Default Renaming many files at once but with different names

remind wrote:

Hi Dave, yes except for the Brackets ( ) although they are not a problem if
they remain.
What I do I upload the files in compressed folders to a FTP site for our
typists to type them up and for privacy issues I call them by a job colour
rather a job name.
Now when I send them to client burnt to a CD, I need to rename the files
from the colour to the actual Project name. So the client knows which project
they are from.

Thanks
Phil


Yeah, I understand what you mean. I think the brackets are a default
thing, and the files are all treated as a group, as though they were in
their own folder.
I hope this works for ya.
--
Dave T.

I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
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Old November 25th 07, 04:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
remind
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Default Renaming many files at once but with different names



"Dave T." wrote:

remind wrote:

Hi Dave, yes except for the Brackets ( ) although they are not a problem if
they remain.
What I do I upload the files in compressed folders to a FTP site for our
typists to type them up and for privacy issues I call them by a job colour
rather a job name.
Now when I send them to client burnt to a CD, I need to rename the files
from the colour to the actual Project name. So the client knows which project
they are from.

Thanks
Phil


Yeah, I understand what you mean. I think the brackets are a default
thing, and the files are all treated as a group, as though they were in
their own folder.
I hope this works for ya.
--
Dave T.

I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Hi Dave, all that does is rename one file,
I highlighted all the files I wanted to rename, right click with mouse and
it only started to rename one file.
This is within Windows Exlpoer.
What I need is a seperate prgram to rename all highlight files and to tell
program what part of name of files I wish to rename.
Is a batch program something that does this, although I know little about
them.
Thanks
Phil
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Old November 25th 07, 08:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
Donald Lessau
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"remind" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
What I need is a seperate prgram to rename all highlight files and to tell
program what part of name of files I wish to rename.


A separate program that can do this is XYplorer file manager, which has a
suite of easy to use bulk rename operations, one of them being "Search &
Replace". You would simply select the files to rename, open "Rename Special
| Search & Replace", and enter the pattern "Yellow/T Barry Int" to achieve
what you need.

Here's a screenshot of the rename preview:
http://www.xyplorer.com/product.htm#rename

Don

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Old February 5th 08, 04:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management
RegB
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Default Renaming many files at once but with different names

REmind, I'm sure you resolved this by now, but your steps should've worked
earlier. I would try it on another pc or multiple times to ensure you were
doing it correctly...it would indicate some underlying problem, or setting if
it didn't work.
I use that function often and there's no need for extra software.

Reg

"Donald Lessau" wrote:

"remind" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
What I need is a seperate prgram to rename all highlight files and to tell
program what part of name of files I wish to rename.


A separate program that can do this is XYplorer file manager, which has a
suite of easy to use bulk rename operations, one of them being "Search &
Replace". You would simply select the files to rename, open "Rename Special
| Search & Replace", and enter the pattern "Yellow/T Barry Int" to achieve
what you need.

Here's a screenshot of the rename preview:
http://www.xyplorer.com/product.htm#rename

Don


 




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