Slippery
Slippery GRM+ Memberand Reader
8/1/13 12:11 p.m.

Lets say you have a folder with 500 pictures, taken with a couple of different cameras/phone.

I want to rename them all so that I can better organize them. Lets say name them IMG001 through IMG500.

Is there are simple way of highlighting all the files and just press a magic button that will do that for me?

Bonus points if the naming can be done according to the date they were taken, older pictures with a lower number or viceversa.

Gimp
Gimp GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
8/1/13 12:13 p.m.

PC or Mac?

JoeyM
JoeyM Mod Squad
8/1/13 12:14 p.m.

Depends on your OS, but yes. Some windows versions will allow you to it. steps:
1) highlight them all
2) right click on the first one
3) select 'rename' from the drop down menu
4) rename.

That should rename all of them in many versions of windoze.

Slippery
Slippery GRM+ Memberand Reader
8/1/13 12:15 p.m.

Thats great news! I am using Vista.

Thanks!

JoeyM
JoeyM Mod Squad
8/1/13 12:16 p.m.

option 2 boot it in linux and use a command line script.

Slippery
Slippery GRM+ Memberand Reader
8/1/13 12:27 p.m.
JoeyM wrote: option 2 boot it in linux and use a command line script.

Now you are overestimating me ... I barely know how to turn on the computer, lol.

aircooled
aircooled PowerDork
8/1/13 12:42 p.m.

There are free file renaming tools out there. Joey's tip will work though, it just adds (1), (2) to the end. Not real pretty, but it does work.

wearymicrobe
wearymicrobe Dork
8/1/13 12:44 p.m.

Flash renamer is free and I might ad amazingly fast and easy to use.

pinchvalve
pinchvalve GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
8/1/13 12:46 p.m.

I do it in Adobe Lightroom or Bridge or Photoshop, so I am sure you can find a PC program that can do the same. Check your photo-editing software for a batch rename feature.

Xceler8x
Xceler8x GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
8/1/13 1:38 p.m.

There is a utility called Bulk Rename Utility. It works well. I've used it quite a bit over the years.

Here it is - Bulk Rename Utility.

Slippery
Slippery GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
8/4/13 9:47 p.m.

Thanks guys. I tried JoeyM's suggestion and it worked ... I am not sure why it starts with (2) instead of (1) but at least now they all have the same name.

I will try Flash Rename and Bulk Rename later with a few other pictures I have.

JoeyM
JoeyM Mod Squad
8/4/13 9:48 p.m.

Glad it worked for you

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