12/27/2008

Tech Tip: Bulk Rename Utility

The freeware Bulk Rename Utility can rename multiple files with the click of a button. When I download images into files, many times I want to change the names, say from a number to a clients names with numbers etc. Other times I have a lot of individual client files in a computer folder, and it would be easier to review if there were more commonality among the file names. There are some programs that will do this, but many can be confusing.

Bulk Rename Utility is easy to use, and has many options available, and its free. All process are performed from the main screen, so there is a lot of content and options, but by only using a few of the main features, the program works very well. The website has a tutorial, FAQ's, features explanations,screen shots and a support forum.

From the Website:

Some of the features provided by Bulk Rename Utility include:

- Rename files, folders or both

- Remove, add or change text in the file names

- Perform text substitution

- Change the case of file names

- Remove characters or words

- Remove digits or symbols

- Append or prepend text to file names

- Append dates in many formats

- Append the parent folder's name

- Auto-number files with flexible rules

- Automatically preview the new names

- Sort the file details by any column

- Group configurations into "favorites"

- "Bulk Rename Here" Windows Explorer extension

- Directory recursion - process sub-directories too!

- Regular Expressions support

- Rename files from an input text-file list

- Create an "Undo" batch file

- Log activity to a log file

- Change file and folder date/timestamps (created, modified, accessed)

- Change file/folder attributes (hidden, read-only, archived)

- All settings retained between sessions

- 32-bit or 64-bit

- Rename photos using EXIF metadata (i.e. "Date Picture Taken", "Resolution" and other information embedded in all JPG photo files)

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

- Command line support ***

- Bulk Rename Utility is totally free!


To visit the website of Bulk Rename Utility, click HERE.

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