Bulk Rename Utility

[Broni]

http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

Bulk Rename Utility is a free file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria.

Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders....plus a whole lot more!

- Rename multiple files quickly, according to many flexible criteria.

- Rename files in many ways: add, replace, insert text into file names. Convert case, add numbers. Remove or change file extensions.

- Check the detailed preview before renaming.

- Rename photos using EXIF meta data (i.e. "Date Picture Taken", "Resolution" and other information embedded in all JPG photo files) Rename your holiday pictures from a meaningless dsc1790.jpg to NewYork1.jpg in a flash.

- Rename MP3 files using ID3 tags (a.k.a. MP3 ID3 tag renaming).

- Change files' creation and modification time stamps.

- It's free.

[BC_Programmer]

That UI is obviously designed by a developer


It's... almost painful to look at, really... Kind of reminds me of this blog post:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000734.html



I think I'll stick to file searching, at least for now- got to stop feature creep before it gets out of hand... Otherwise we end up with...

Considering I was able to hack together the ability to enumerate Alternate Data Streams using the Backup API I can probably put some support for EXIF into BCFile... which would mean searching based on that data would be trivial.

This has given me many new ideas for my library too- right now the date properties are read-only... but why not make them writable?


the UI though... seriously...

[Kip]

I have been using Bulk Rename Utility for a while now and it works well.

The only problem I have had with it is that it cannot read the "date taken" EXIF data from my pictures.
As a substitute, I use the "modified" date for the "Auto Date" feature.

[shish]

Great post thanks Broni, just downloaded and it works great.

That UI is obviously designed by a developer


It's... almost painful to look at, really... Kind of reminds me of this blog post:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000734.html



I think I'll stick to file searching, at least for now- got to stop feature creep before it gets out of hand... Otherwise we end up with...

Considering I was able to hack together the ability to enumerate Alternate Data Streams using the Backup API I can probably put some support for EXIF into BCFile... which would mean searching based on that data would be trivial.

This has given me many new ideas for my library too- right now the date properties are read-only... but why not make them writable?


the UI though... seriously...

to Quote from the PDF Manual

"First off, DO NOT PANIC!!!!
Many users look at the screen and say "Oh my gawd, what the heck do I do here?"! But Bulk
Rename Utility is really very straightforward to use."

and it really is very straightforward after reading it.

[Broni]

It scared me at first too, but I figured it out, and I think, it's a great program.

[Kurtiskain]

Great tool, thanks for sharing! been looking for something like this for a while

[mrgardon]

Been using this utility for a while now.  Particularly great for renaming directories.