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Renaming multiple files???

I need to rename multiple files, as for example...

DSC00062.JPG | | | DSC00098.JPG

to...

Thanksgiving00062.JPG | | | Thanksgiving00098.JPG

I vaguely remember, in DOS, that I could type:

REN DSC*.JPG NAME*.JPG

But that won't handle long files names, plus it's a pain dropping into the crappy DOS window.

Anyone know a trick or a utility (doesn't have to be free) that can do this?

Thanks!

...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson
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Not as good as the DOS method but maybe it works for you:

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Joerg

Jim, this seems to be a more comfy method, no idea about the quality of this program though:

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Joerg

Just discovered that myself. That will work for what I want to do right now... make a memory stick up for my father of all the family photos, without having name conflicts from multiple directories of DSC... files.

But the utility you found looks good for general use.

...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson

That's the one.

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Lots of folks give it top marks.

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JeffM

Irfanview is a good general image viewer, which will also batch transform and rename files.

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Adrian Jansen

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I'm pretty sure PhotoShop Elements will do renaming too on import, with the added benefit that you can automatically correct red eye (and maybe image/pixel dimensions?) as you go. The program also has facial recognition features, which supposedly allows for easier catalogging.

Although I have Elements, I've never used these particular features.

I did not check Jorge's links yet. Sound's like they're pretty good also.

-mpm

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mpm

Just off the top of my head:

#!/bin/bash for AA in DSC* ; do BB=`echo $AA | sed "s/DSC/Thanksgiving/"` mv $AA $BB done

put an "echo" in front of the mv and test it before you do it for real

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MooseFET

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that line with will work just fine in cmd.exe even with long filenames...

-Lasse

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Ken Fowler

I think that the DOS emulation in gooies handles LFns.

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Robert Baer

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