| ANT Renamer | - F - | http://www.antp.be/software/ - http://www.buypin.com |
| eRename | - F - | http://hansjoerg.reister.bei.t-online.de/erename/ |
| ReNamer | - F - | [den4b] - Denis Kozlov - http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~den4b/ |
| Renamer 6.0 Final | - F - | Albert Bertilsson - www.albert.nu |
| Sophisticated Rename 1.7 (Last Freeware Version) | - F - | http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/util/renaming.html |
I get excited hoping to find a better app than what I'm using.I believe many are by now :)-zridling (April 02, 2006, 05:55 PM)
Personally I think Command line commands is a must if you really want to automate anything with utilities like that-patteo (April 01, 2006, 01:09 AM)
LMOD extracts data from an input source (STDIN): from redirected DOS screen output, for example, or from any (ASCII) file. The extracted information is inserted into a given text or command string, and sent to STDOUT for redirection into a file.
You may extract a complete line, a part of it (starting column, size) or words (by number), even several items from a source line in any order. And this will be done either for a single line, or for a given range of lines of the input source.
What you can do with LMOD:
* set environmental variables with information from (DOS) screen output
* get keyboard input
* generate a command using extracted input data
* generate a list of commands for each item of a given (file) list
* extract (and modify) range of lines from a file
* modify lists or tables, arrange columns
To set a variable: generate a SET command (or WINSET / SETX), and execute it thru a temporary batch file. This method also works under Windows NT/2000.
Special Features:
* change case for extracted data
* tabs (to given column) for formatted output
* right aligned fields (numeric data in tables)
* insert CR+LF to generate several lines for each input line
* omit CR+LF at end of output (to append later)
* insert line number (to generate filenames, for example)
* insert special characters by code number or in quoted string
a great regular expression, command-line no-install tool. BKRenamer is great when you have to do a change all the file names in several directories because it can search through subdirectories as well.
Yes, they will have implemented Group Policy to restrict access to the drive. My utility reads the Shell Namespace, which will honour the restrictions. Your other utilities will operate on the drive directly.
Question about drag & drop with auto incrementing of filenames #
Is there a method for dragging and dropping a list of files with the same name into a new folder and have them automatically increment the filenames rather than give an overwrite warning? Two instances where I've seen this work: when dragging files from a search result window into Nero (screenshot) and when dragging email messages from Outlook Express into Explorer. I'm not looking for a renamer to change the original filenames, but rather a way to create new files with incremented names. Answers sent to "mail AT tinyapps DOT org" will be appended to this post.
UPDATE: Jorg Kliemann has kindly crafted a solution.
DROP++ #
Jorg Kliemann has generously crafted DROP++ (http://member.eduhi.at/j.kliemann/wiki/wiki.php?page=Downloads) (source available here (http://member.eduhi.at/j.kliemann/wiki/wiki.php?page=sourcecode-droppp)) using AutoIt (itself a mostly open source project) to address the drag & drop overwrite problem mentioned recently. Simply drag and drop a group of files from search results or any other Explorer window onto its icon; DROP++ will copy the files and autoincrement the resulting filenames. If you're tired of seeing "Confirm File Replace - This folder already contains a file named foo. Would you like to replace the existing file with this one?", give DROP++ a try. (By the way, holding Shift while clicking No to the above dialog behaves like "No to All", which is otherwise not provided.)
Virtually every corporation/company I've ever worked for severely restricts what users can see and do-zridling (April 04, 2006, 05:05 AM)
I don't understand what the TinyApps blog entry quote is trying to say with regard to file rename utilities.
any idea if there are other utilities exist other than 1-4a and Lupas Rename that can do what you say?
Renamer 6.0 Final - F - Albert Bertilsson - www.albert.nu -AbteriX (April 02, 2006, 08:36 AM)
I love his description of Preview: (for cowards!)
For example, BRU cannot rename files using mp3 track information. Its developer, Jim Willsher, holds that mp3 extraction slows down the program too much and recommends specific mp3 renamers for that purpose.-zridling (April 04, 2006, 06:57 PM)
Jan Falke's RenameFiles (http://it-falke.com/software/renamefiles/us_description.php) utility. When you open it up, it does 90% of what most people do with a renamer on the fly. I love his description of Preview: (for cowards!)
RJ, your comment is quite common in my email this week. Seems most people use other tools, viz., their file managers like Total Commander or Directory Opus to rename files on the fly. This fact of utilization will need to be noted within the review, I believe.-zridling (April 09, 2006, 10:42 PM)
rather than writing in a "real" programming language, [people] were stretching the tools they liked.
Perhaps the built-in, ready-to-hand, familiar tools are adequate for most people, most of the time?Most of the familiar tools are adequate for most people all the time - because they just don't care to search for a better solution.-rjbull (April 10, 2006, 04:29 AM)
Added NIYoW (http://www.niyow.com/index.html), Name It Your Way as perhaps the last app considered for the review. That gives us an even 20 apps and we'll see if we can make it interesting.I'm really looking forward to the review! While I don't rename files every day such a tool can save huge amounts of time and reduce your stress-level at the same moment.-zridling (April 13, 2006, 03:48 AM)
RJ, your comment is quite common in my email this week. Seems most people use other tools, viz., their file managers like Total Commander or Directory Opus to rename files on the fly. This fact of utilization will need to be noted within the review, I believe.
...the reason I use DOpus is because it does what I need it to do perfectly well,....-superboyac (April 13, 2006, 06:27 PM)
[...] like brotherS made me think about, I think a file renamer gives you direct control over your files and folders. If you know where to find it or its name, then you can use either your desktop search client or a utility like FileLocator Pro (http://www.mythicsoft.com/default.aspx) to get there fast.Don't forget to mention the great and free Locate here :) https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1385.0 has all the info, it's blazing fast and brought the fun back to searches!-zridling (April 13, 2006, 04:40 PM)
I've used Flash Renamer before, and found it quite good.I love Directory Opus, but I have to say that I can't figure out the renamer tool, it's just too wild and complicated. All those (./*) symbols I couldn't figure out, nor could I find much help in the help file about it. I can do simple things, but as soon as I start tweaking and needing to use those symbols, I'm lost. It's one of those things where the programmers have felt that to maximize the power of the renamer, they have to make it as raw as possible. Actually, if there is a concise tutorial about the DOpus method, I'd be very interested. But emphasis on concise.
But holy mother! There are just soooo many. It would be easier for me to create my own than to review them and choose a decent one.
So - for lazy/busy ol' me - what's the final verdict? Directory Opus looks a bit ugly... Is the power worth it?-Renegade (October 23, 2006, 10:19 AM)