Thanks for these suggestions, but I have tried both drop rename & ABFR:
neither have facility to keep file extensions intact

any other suggestions?

Drop rename has search and replace, surely that keeps the file extensions intact?

Perhaps if you gave us an example of how you wanted the files renamed?

Thanks,
Shay
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