(Loading & Saving, Drag & Drop) RENAMING FILES

The rename button is located on the "Quick Tools" panel. When you click on the Rename button, which has an "RE" on it, and you have tagged multiple files; you are shown many ways to rename the files. The following are the various ways to rename multiple files:

Insert Anywhere In Filename
Just select the position in the filename and the TEXT you want inserted into all the tagged files.

Add To End Of Filename
Just type the text you want to appear at the end of all the filenames.

Replace First Few Characters
Type what you want to become the first part of all the filenames. If you typed Hello, then all the tagged filenames will start with "hello" replacing what USED to be the first 5 characters of each tagged filename. This is because "hello" is 5 characters long.

Delete First Few Characters
Select how many characters you want to remove from the beginning of all the filenames.

Delete Last Few Characters
Select how many characters you want to remove from the end of all the filenames.

Delete Anywhere In Filename
Select the position in the filename and how many characters you want to delete.

Sequential Renaming
This allows you to rename a series of files so that they all have the same base filename with a number appended to it. For example:  Paris_001.jpg, Paris_002.jpg, Paris_003.jpg. The appended number is automatically incremented as it processes all the tagged files. You can also Prefix the number to the FRONT of the filename instead of Appending them.

NOTE: There is powerful "Minimum Digits In Output Sequence#" option. This allows you to force how many digits appear in the filenames. For example: If your output would have been:
IMG_1.jpg
IMG_10.jpg
IMG_11.jpg
IMG_12.jpg
IMG_2.jpg
IMG_3.jpg
IMG_4.jpg
IMG_5.jpg
IMG_6.jpg
IMG_7.jpg
IMG_8.jpg
IMG_9.jpg
Then 10,11,12 would appear out of sequence. If you force 2 minimum digits to fix this, they would look like:
IMG_01.jpg
IMG_02.jpg
IMG_03.jpg
IMG_04.jpg
IMG_05.jpg
IMG_06.jpg
IMG_07.jpg
IMG_08.jpg
IMG_09.jpg
IMG_10.jpg
IMG_11.jpg
IMG_12.jpg
Then all the filenames would appear in the correct sequence. You can force up to 10 digits.

NOTE: There is powerful "Append Original Filename" checkbox. This allows you to append the original filename to the new filename. For example: If you had the following original filenames:
D_IMG_1029.jpg
K_Flower2.gif
And you used a base name of "Vacation_" then the resulting filenames would become:
Vacation_101_D_IMG_1029.jpg
Vacation_102_K_Flower2.gif
At first glance, you may not see the brilliance of it. But let's say you hack off MOST of the end so that you have:
Vacation_101_D.jpg
Vacation_102_K.gif
You now could have a folder of pics all sequentially renamed PLUS you have the added benefit of the additional information at the end. This information could be used for anything, but in order to get your brain juices flowing, let's just say that the _D would indicate photos taken by Dave and the _K would indicate photos taken by Katherine. Otherwise, without the ability to append original filename, you would have a long and tedious chore to manually place the _D and _K at the end of the filenames. In other words, not only do you have a sequence that you want, you can also determine who took which picture. Of course it could be used for other purposes as well.

Swap Left/Right Portions
This allows you to take all of the filenames and cut them in half and then swap the halves. You just select where the CUTTING point is located.

Replace Text
You can replace specified text in filenames while renaming. For example: If you had filenames like these:

FileImg_001.jpg
IMG_002.gif
0001_IMG.bmp

You could replace the "img" with "Image" and the list would end up like this:

FileImage_001.jpg
Image_0002.gif
0001_Image.bmp

There are many uses for this and you can even REMOVE the text by making the "replace with" text blank to produce a list like this:

File_001.jpg
_0002.gif
0001_.bmp

Rename To Camera EXIF Date/Time
You can rename all the filenames based on the date the photo was taken. This will effectively make the sort order of the files based on the date the photos were taken. The resulting list could look like this:

2004_02_13_n001.nef
2004_02_13_n002.nef
2004_02_13_n003.nef
2004_02_13_n004.nef
2004_02_13_n001.crw
2005_08_21_n001.crw
2005_09_30_n001.crw

You can even rename by Date AND Time. This will effectively make the sort order of the files based on the cronological order the
photos were taken. The resulting list could look like this:

2004_02_13-18_26_02_n001.nef
2004_02_13-18_26_15_n001.nef
2004_02_13-18_26_56_n001.nef
2004_02_13-18_26_56_n001.crw
2004_02_13-18_26_56_n002.nef
2005_08_21-04_12_43_n001.crw
2005_09_30-12_32_14_n001.crw

NOTE: If you just have a SINGLE file tagged, OR you selected to perform the operation on the CURRENT file, then you will NOT see the above choices for renaming. You will just be able to rename ONE file, with the option of renaming it to a filename that already exists from a pull-down list.



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