Rename Multiple Files At Once
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I had no idea that you could do this with Windows. Did you know that if you that you can rename a series of files all at once?
I took pictures at a tech show recently and I wanted them all to be labeled show1.jpg, show2.jpg, etc. To do this the easiest way, you can select all the images with your mouse, then right-click on one of the images and select Rename. The file you right-clicked on will be highlighted so you can type a name to change it to. Give the file a name, and after pressing Enter, all the files were renamed filename1, filename2, etc.
Such a simple feature that I never knew about.
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Dennis Neumann
March 21st, 2008
at 9:45am
Oztech:
This worked great in XP, but Vista seems to have taken a good idea and messed it up. In XP you could start your renaming sequence with any number you wanted. You could select a series of 9 files and rename the first one . The last one would be
Or you could name the first one and the last one would be This was extremely handy.
In Vista, your first photo will be and the last will be and you can’t do anything about it.
Or have you found some way to defeat this Vista “improvement” over XP?
Thanks.
Dennis5900