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Review of File Renamers — let's make a list
f0dder:
*bump*.
Anybody's going to finish the review? :)
iphigenie:
I tried at least 15 of the ones mentioned and the oneI use and often pass around is FlexRenamer (11) / the live preview means I could give it to designers to do their own image file name cleanups
f0dder:
Preview is definitely a must in such an app, and so is regular expressions. I checked out 1-4a renamer which did the job for the simple rename I needed, but wouldn't recommend that app - super messy interface.
The screenshots for FlexRename look a bit messy because of all the japanese + bugs :)
MerleOne:
I use a lot the file multiple-renaming capability of Total Commander, which is very powerful (wildcards, regex - I think, and so on). Not easy to use at first, but when one get a hand on this, it's so convenient.
To activate it : select files then press Ctrl-M
iphigenie:
They all seem to have slightly quirky interface :-\
If you want non japanese screenies of FlexRename I can make some.
That program has far more features than I have ever used
* regexp and wildcard and char-2-char replace
* lots of "pre-canned" renames which are configurable and help you without having to do a regex (dates, cleanup operations like removing "copy n of" or "shortcut to"
* renames based on meta information, iptc, exif, music tags (not ogg yet), office meta tags (MS, not the open office format), html meta tags
* save your options as preset, retrieve them
* all the usual options move-and-rename, copy-and-rename but also delete-what-matches (technically not a rename). change or don't change the date etc.
* files selected by folder, or drag-and-drop to build the list
* add to context menu to run the program or a search from normal explorer use
But mostly I like it because the listing of the files even with subfolders is very fast and so is the preview of whatever transformation you are asking. It feels instantaneous to me. That's the killer feature.
I'm sure many of the other tools in the list have similar features, but once I found this one I kept coming back to it. It's free too.
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