I keep coming back to Irfanview image viewer as the best batch renaming free
program.
- sort your files on the Windows Explorer tag, i.e. into 2 blocks.
- copy one block of your two blocks into a separate folder.
- open one of the copied files in Irfanview and select Batch Rename.
- select all the files in the folder for the renaming.
- the usual renaming options, but really powerful is the ability to pick out
bits of
the original filename via the [...] method and rebuild the name using those
bits
together with bits of fixed text or incrementing digits. See Irfanview
renaming Help.
- choose whether the renamed files overwrite or copy elsewhere.
- use the 'preview' option to see if the renaming would work as intended.
- rename.
- repeat for the 2nd batch.
Of course the hard part is retaining the correct linkages in Legacy. I guess
that's where the database wrangling come in!
Peter
At 18:11 11-01-19 +0000, Chris Swann via LegacyUserGroup wrote:
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All,
I suspect i already know the answer but.........
I have a LOAD of media files that have the name Unknown(xxx), where xxx is a
number. I have tagged the files (in Windows Explorer) as to whether they are
1911 UK census images or UK BMD entries.
What I would like to do is rename, at the very least, the Census files to a
standard 1911 England Census(xxx) format so that I at least have all the Census
files in order.
Is there any way to bulk rename the files to replace the Unknown with 1911
England Census without having to do each one individually ?
Alternatively, does anyone have a schema for the data tables that I could use
to cook up my own Access query to try and achieve the desired outcome ?
Thanks in advance,
Chris Swann
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