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Bulk Rename Utility

A software utility to rename files and folders

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Table of Contents

Overview
Getting Started
All Renaming Options
Using the Application

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..............……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 101 Launching the Application

.................…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 112 Renaming Files and Folders

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 133 Actions Menu

.......……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 164 Display Options Menu

............……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 175 Renaming Options Menu

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 196 Special Menu

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 207 Context Menu

......…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 218 Saving Your Settings

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 229 Using Favourites

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2310 Picture Viewer

..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2411 Bulk Rename Here

..................………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2512 Drag and Drop from Explorer

..............……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2613 Single File Quick Rename

Additional Features

......…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 271 Custom Date Formats

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 282 Recursive Scans

................……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 293 Renaming From A Text File

.....……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 304 Regular Expressions

...........………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 335 Changing File Attributes

...............…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 346 Changing File Timestamps

........…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 357 Character Translations

................................................……………………………………………………………………….. 368 Using Windows File Properties to Rename Files

..................................……………………………………………………………………………………. 389 Using EXIF Properties to Rename Files

.......……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4010 JavaScript Renaming

...............…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4511 JavaScript Filter Condition

................……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4712 Command Line Parameters

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1 Bulk Rename Utility

Overview

Bulk Rename Utility is a software utility for Windows which allows you to rename multiple files and folders,
based upon flexible criteria. For example, you can add a prefix or suffix to a file, or you can change three
letters with four other letters in a filename. There are lots of ways to manipulate file and folder names.

Bulk Rename Utility supports many flexible renaming criteria, including:

Rename files and/or folders
Support for Regular Expressions
Change the file name or use a fixed filename
Convert the extension to lower case, upper case, title case — or replace it — or add a secondary extension ­or remove it
Replace text with other text
Add a fixed prefix or suffix
Add text to the middle of a name
Move text to the start/end/middle of a name
Remove the first n characters
Remove the last n characters
Remove from the nth character to the nth character
Remove a list of characters
Remove all digits, characters or symbols
Remove double-spaces
Crop text before or after a fixed character or text (or from anywhere in a name using a wildcard)
Change to upper case, lower case, title case, sentence case — all with user-defined exceptions
Auto-number files, with a prefix or suffix, and with a predefined minimum-length if required
Prefix or suffix the filename with various dates (date-modified, accessed, created, or today’s date), in many
different formats with variable separators
Append the folder name to the file (with multiple levels)
Store your frequently-used renaming criteria as Favourites
Copy or move the renamed files to a new location
Set or clear the Windows attributes on the files (read-only, archived, system, hidden)
Rename files according to a list
Process files in folders and also sub-folders very quickly
Change file or folder created, modified and accessed timestamps
Convert Roman numerals to upper or lower case
Log all activity to a text-file
Create an UNDO batch file
Preview all operations before actually renaming.
Extract certain EXIF tags from JPEG, TIFF, .NEF, .CR2 and and .CRW files. Extract EXIF version 2 tags from
JPEG files
Extract certain ID3 tags (V1 and V1.1) from MP3 files
Extract and use the Windows File Properties to rename
Add file hashes to file names (crc32, MD5, SHA)
Create and move files into folders based on file names or file dates (‘folderize’)
Drag files directly from within Windows Explorer
Support for renaming scripts using Javascript

The application supports Favourites, which allows quick access to frequently-used renaming configurations.
Directory recursion is also fully supported, allowing you to process folders and sub-folders.

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Getting Started

Bulk Rename Utility is straightforward to use.

There are four simple rules to follows:

1. Only complete the boxes you are interested in. For example, don’t assume you have to put something in
the Regular Expressions box, or the New Location box, etc.

2. IMPORTANT: You have to select files to rename from the file list before the Rename button is enabled.

3. The «new name» column will always be shown in the list, so you can experiment until you get the desired
result before actually committing the changes.

4. Almost all the boxes on the screen are ONLY for affecting the file name, NOT the extension. The only box
which affects the extension is box 11. There is an option in the «Renaming Options’ menu to ‘Rename File
Extensions as Being Part of the File Names’ if needed.

So for example, if you just want to change the filename case to upper case, all you need to do is:

1. Change the drop-down in box 4 to «Upper».

2. Select the files you want to rename (click on the files, Shift+click to select a range, Ctrl+click, Ctrl-A etc.)

3. Press the Rename button (or Preview to review all changes before renaming).

And that’s it! No worrying about regular expressions, new folders, auto-numbers, dates etc.
You only need to use the boxes you are interested in. Don’t want to move the files to a new folder? Leave
the New Location fields blank. Don’t want to change the file name case? Leave the Case fields as their default
values.

It is simple, only use the boxes you are interested in.

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All Renaming Options

When you run the application for the first time you will be presented with the main window, located in the
center of the screen. The main screen is laid out in a similar way to Windows Explorer. Below the menu bar
are two panes, the left of which is a tree view providing access to your system drives and folders. The right­hand pane is a list view of the files and folders contained within the currently selected branch of the tree
shown over on the left.

Below the navigation panes are a series of controls. The controls are grouped together according to function ­for example, all the facilities to remove text from a filename. Only complete the boxes you are interested in.
For example, don’t assume you HAVE to put something in the Regular Expressions box, or the New Location
box, etc.

The rules used by the Bulk Rename Utility to rename files processed in the order that the controls appear. i.e.
from left to right. Names are not actually changed until the «Rename» button is clicked, but you can always
see a preview of the proposed filename in the New Name column. Note that this column is only updated for
the files which are selected.

RegEx (1)

Regular Expression. It allows you to enter a regular expression Match and Replace. More details can be found

here. If you are not using Regular Expressions then both of these fields must be left blank. Do not confuse

these fields with the Replacements fields found elsewhere on the screen (Repl., see below).
Include Ext.: select this option to apply the regular expression to the entire name and extension.

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Note: It is also possible to use <clip> in the Replace field. <clip> will be substituted with the current text
content of the Window s Clipboard.

Name (2)

Fine Name. It allows you to manage the file name.
Name drop-down:

Keep — ensure that the original filename is not changed (default).
Remove — completely erase the filename from the selected items.
Fixed — specify a new filename in the box for all selected items. Only really useful if you’re also using the

Numbering section.
Reverse — reverse the name, e.g. 12345.txt becomes 54321.txt.

Replace (3)

Replacement. It allows you to replace occurrences of one text string with another.
This section consists of two controls. You must specify the text you wish to Replace and the text you wish to

replace it With. It is possible to find a text string and replace it with an empty string, or with a shorter string,
or with a longer string. You may also specify whether or not you want the «find» to be case-sensitive using
Match Case. Note that the text is always replaced with the text you specify, including any specific text case.

Note: It is also possible to use the tag <clip> in both the Replace and With fields. <clip> will be substituted
with the current text content of the Windows Clipboard.

Case (4)

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Changing of case. Allows the capitalization of file and/or folder names to be changed.
Case drop-down:

Same — leave the original capitalization intact.
Lower — convert all letters in the name(s) to low er-case.
Upper — converts all letters in the name(s) into capitals.
Title — converts all the words in the selected items to initial caps. A word is generally defined as a string of

letters proceeded by a space or a bracket. So «joe public.txt» would become «Joe Public.txt» but «joe-public.
txt» would become «Joe-public.txt».
Sentence — converts all the words in the sentence to sentence format. This means capitalizing the first letter
of the first word after every full stop (.). So «hello EVERYONE. MY name IS FreD.txt» would become «Hello
everyone. My name is fred.txt»

Exceptions: You can also enter a list of «exceptions«, separated by colons. So for example if you entered PHP:
ASP:doc then any occurrence of php or ASP (or pHP or aSp) would be converted to upper-case, and every
occurrence of DOC (or DoC) would become doc.

Remove (5)

Removing parts of a filename.
This section consists of several options for removing parts of a filename. Note that these do not apply to the

file extension, just the name.

First n — Remove the first n characters from the name. E.g. removing the first 2 characters from «Joe Public.
txt» will result in «e Public.txt».
Last n — Remove the last n characters from the name. E.g. removing the last 2 characters from «Joe Public.
txt» will result in «Joe Publ.txt».

From/to — Remove a string of text, e.g. from the 6th to the 9th characters.
Chars — Remove occurrences of characters from the name. E.g. typing «QW:#» will result in all occurrences of

Q, W, colon and hash being removed.

Words — Remove occurrences of words (separated by spaces).
Crop — Remove any text which occurs before (or after) a specific character or word. See note below.
Digits — Remove all occurrences of the digits 0-9 from the filename.
High — Remove high-ASCII characters (chars from 128 to 255).
Trim — Remove leading and trailing spaces.
D/S — Remove occurrences of double spaces, and replace them with single spaces.
Accent — Remove accented characters and replace them with non-accented versions. File names may contain

accented characters, e.g. File names might contain à and á. Bulk Rename Utility provides a facility to replace
accented characters with non-accented if needed.

Chars — Remove all characters.
Sym — Remove all symbols.
Lead Dots — Remove the . or .. from the front of filenames (useful if you’ve copied from a Linux/Unix system).

Note: When you use the «crop» option, you have the ability of specifying a «special» value using the wildcard
(*). This will remove the specified string, and any characters occupied by the wildcard. So for example,
specifying [*] would convert «Hello[ABC] Joe» to just «Hello Joe», as it has removed the two square brackets
and everything between.

Move/Copy (6)

Move a section of text to a different place.
This section allows you to move or copy a fixed number of characters form one part of the string (start or end)

to another (start, end or position). You could do this with Regular Expressions, but this gives you an
alternative. So for example, if all your filenames end with a unique 6-digit sequence code, and you’d rather
have this at the start of the filename, then this is the simplest way to achieve it. You can also specify a
separator in the field Sep.

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Add (7)

Add a fixed prefix or suffix to the filename, and certain Exif and ID3 tags.
This section allows you to add a fixed text string to the start of the filename (Prefix) and/or a fixed text string

to the end of a filename (Suffix). Useful for renaming MP3 files, where you can prefix all the filenames with the
artist or album name. You can also insert a text string at any point in the filename.
You may also choose to add a «Word Space». This will insert a space before any capital letter (except the first
character), unless there’s a space already there. So, the name «MyHoliday Photographs» would become «My
Holiday Photographs».

EXIF Tags: If you are processing JPEG files or other image files that support EXIF, you can also extract and
add certain EXIF tags.
These are specified using substitution tags, which you key into the Prefix, Insert or Suffix boxes. The tags
supported are:

%a — Aperture
%c — Comments
%e — Exposure
%f — Focal Length
%xb — Exposure Bias
%ma — Camera Make
%mo — Camera Model

Extended EXIF Tags (version 2): Additional extended version 2 EXIF Tags are also supported in Add (7).
They can be added as text, number or as a formatted date to a file name. Read More.

ID3 Tags: If you are processing MP3 files, you can also extract certain ID3 tags (n.b. only V1 and V1.1 ID3
tags are supported). These are specified using substitution tags, which you key into the Prefix, Insert or Suffix
boxes. The tags supported are:

%r — Artist
%l — Album
%t — Title
%k — Track Number

Other Tags Supported:

%z : You can also specify %z to include the file size (using the format currently specified on the Options
menu)

<clip> : It is also possible to use the tag <clip>. <clip> will be substituted with the current text content of
the Windows Clipboard.

<removed> : Use the <removed> tag to add back what was removed in section Remove(5). For example, if
in Remove(5) text was removed from position 3 to 6 or First n or Last n or by the crop function, then you
can re-add that removed text in a different position, as a suffix, prefix or insertion, using the <removed>
tag in Add(7). You can use the <removed> tag multiple times in Add(7).

HASH Value Tags

The following hash value tags are also supported: <(hash:crc32)>, <(hash:md5)>,<(hash:sha1)>,<(hash:
sha256)>,<(hash:sha3)>,<(hash:keccak)>. These tags will be replaced by the corresponding hash value of
the file and can be used to add a hash value to the file name.

Windows File Properties:

All Windows File Properties tags are also supported in Add (7). They can be added as text, number or as a
formatted date to a file name. Read More
To enable Windows File Properties tags support, activate the option ‘Extract Windows File Properties’ from the

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Renaming menu.

Auto Date (8)

Add various dates to the filename, in various formats.
This section allows you to prefix or suffix the filename with a variety of dates — the date that the file was

created, modified, or accessed, and also with the current date. The date can be added in 9 different formats,
some of which also include the modification time. You can also specify the characters you would like placed
between the date/time and the existing filename (the Sep. field) and the character to place between the
different date/time segments (the Seg. field). e.g. a format of DMY, with a Seg field of «-» would give a date of
(for example) «25-01-03». The «Cent.» flag is used to indicate whether or not you would the year to be
represented with two digits or 4 digits.

You also have the option to specify your own custom date formats, and these are detailed here.

If you are also updating the file’s Creation-date or Modified-date, then you can also choose the «Create
(New)» and «Modified (New)» values, and these will equate to your new timestamps.

Several of the dates you can use relate to «date taken». These are EXIF flags which are often embedded in
digital camera images (images created using a digital camera). Bulk Rename Utility will only get the flags from
JPEG images (.JPG or .JPEG extension), TIFFs (.TIF, .TIFF), Nikon (.NEF) and Canon (.CR2) files. If no date is
available then no date will be used. So for example, choosing to append a Date Taken field for a .EXE file will
simply append nothing. The dates are:

Taken (Original) — The original timestamp, which should never change.
Taken (Digitized) — The original timestamp, but if the file has been edited (Canon Digital Photo Professional

etc.) then this date is updated.

Taken (Modified) — The standard «DateTime» EXIF field, which is usually updated if you edit the picture.
Taken (Recent) — the most «recent» of all three. By recent, this means the last timestamp in the file, not

necessarily the most recent in time. This is purely to retain the same behaviour as previous versions of Bulk
Rename Utility.

Append Folder Name (9)

Add the name of the containing folder(s).
This section allows you to append (or prepend) the name of the containing folder to the filename. So for

example, if you had a file called «Dancers.jpg» in a folder called «Highland Show August 2003» then you could
automatically rename the file to «Highland Show August 2003 — Dancers.jpg». Useful if you have lots of folders,
each containing the same group of files, and you want to merge all the files into a single folder.

You can specify a separator character(s) to use between the folder name and the file name.
You can also specify how many folders to append. So for example, if you had a picture called «Cat.jpg» in «C:

\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Pictures», and you chose 4 levels, the result will be «C-Documents
and Settings-Administrator-Pictures-Cat.jpg» The software will automatically remove the «:\» from the root (e.
g C:\) as these two characters are illegal in file names.

Numbering (10)

Add sequential numbers.
This section allows you to sequentially number a group of files. Several criteria exist:

Mode — Specify whether you want the number to be appended to the start of the filename, or at the end of
the filename, both or insert at a certain position.
Start — Specify a starting number for the numbering.

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Incr. — The number by which you want each file name number to be incremented.
Pad — The minimum number of digits occupied by the numeric element. Bases 1-36 will be padded with

leading zeros; the a-z and A-Z options will be padded with «a» or «A» as appropriate.
Sep. — A character or characters that you wish to be inserted between the filename and the number. If you
enter the special character «:» (colon) in the Sep. box then this will be replaced with the auto-number. So a
separator value of ABC:DEF: would result in ABC1DEF1, ABC2ABC2 etc.

A common scenario would be:

Mode = Suffix
Start = 1
Increment = 1
Pad = 4
Separator = —

This would result in filenames with suffixes of -0001, -0002, -0003, -0004 etc.

Break — Reset the auto-number when the nnn character changes. e.g. enter 4 to cause the number to reset
when the 4th character of the NEW name changes.

Folder — Reset the auto-number upon a change of subfolder.
Type — You can choose to append the auto-number in any numeric base, from base 2 to base 36. e.g. a

value of 26 in base 16 would be appended as 1A. Or even use letters, e.g. A-Z or a-z.
Roman Numerals — Convert Roman Numerals to upper of lower case. For example, if you had a file called
«Beethoven’s niNTH syMPHONY part iii», you might want to use Title Case to format the filename, but this
would impact the «iii». Use this control to handle the Roman Numeral element.

Extension (11)

Change case of the file name extension.

Same — Leave the original capitalization intact.
Lower — Convert all letters in the extension to lower-case.
Upper — Convert all letters in the extension into capitals.
Title — Convert all the words in the selected items to initial caps, e.g. Jpeg.
Fixed — Replace the extension with a fixed extension. For example, use this option to set all your files to «.

doc» types.

Extra — Add a secondary extension. For example, change my.holiday to my.holiday.gif
Remove — Remove any file extension. e.g. My.Holiday becomes My

Filters (12) (a.k.a Selections)

Select which files and/or folders are shown in the file list. By default this will be all the files and folders in the
current folder. Note that this section is only used to govern which files/folders are displayed. You still need to

select a file or folder in order to rename it.

Filter — Specify a file mask to use. Normally this would be *.*, or *.mp3, or *.doc etc. Note that this section is

only used to govern which files/folders are displayed. You still need to select a file or folder in order to
rename it. So for example, entering a filter of «*.mp3» means that only your MP3 music files will be shown.
You can enter multiple file masks by separating them with a space, e.g. «*.mp3 *.doc *.xls». Note: changes
to this field only take effect when you move the cursor to a different field or click a different control. This is
to prevent the list from rebuilding with each keystroke as you type. You can also prefix a criteria with the
exclamation mark (!) to perform a «not» expression. So «* !*.doc !*.mp3» will select everything except Word
documents and MP3 files.

Match Case — Match case when applying the filter.
RegEx — The Filter is a regular expression.
Folders — Include folders in the listing.
Files — Include files in the listing.

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Subfolders — If the subfolders option is checked, Bulk Rename Utility will process the contents of all sub­folders in the selected branch of the file hierarchy. Care should be taken when using this feature as the
utility can potentially list every file on your system.
Hidden — Checking this option will mean that hidden files will be displayed and selectable. Important: you
should be careful using this option as many Windows system files are hidden and renaming them could
have a detrimental effect on the functionality of your system.
Min. Len. — Only files/folders whose names are greater than (or equal to) this length will be displayed and
selectable. Useful if you want to rename files greater than 64 characters for putting onto a CD, for example.
N.B. This will exclude files and folders, if the file/folder name is shorter than the nominated length. However,
in a recursive scan, sub-folders will still be scanned regardless of the length of the subfolder’s name.
Max. Len. — Only files/folders whose names are lesser than (or equal to) this length will be processed.
However, in a recursive scan, sub-folders will still be scanned regardless of the length of the subfolder’s
name
Condition — Here you can enter a Javascript condition to filter files/folders. If the condition evaluates to ‘true’
for an object, then that object is included in the file list, otherwise it is not. Using a condition you can
include/filter files based on name, date, exif, size, attributes, length, etc.

New Location (13)

This section allows you to leave the original files intact, but create copies of the files (with the new names) in
a separate folder. This option will honor the «Overwrite Target Files» menu option.

Special (14)

On top of the above renaming options, there are 4 additional special actions that can be performed on files.
These actions are also accessible via the «Special» menu and they are:

Change File Attributes
Change File Timestamps
Character Translations
Javascript Renaming (Javascript renaming gives you total flexibility and control on file renaming by using

Javascript code)

Renaming From a Text File

Accessible from the ‘Actions’ menu, ‘Import Rename-Pairs’ allows renaming files from a text file.

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Using the Application

Launching the Application

When you run the application for the very first time you will be presented with the main window, located in
the center of the screen. The main screen is laid out in a similar way to Windows Explorer. Below the menu
bar are two panes, the left of which is a tree view providing easy access to your system drives and folders.
The right-hand pane is a list view of the files and folders contained within the currently selected branch of the
tree shown over on the left.

Below the navigation panes are a series of controls. The controls are grouped together according to function ­for example, all the facilities to remove text from a filename.

Whenever you re-launch the application most of the settings from your previous session will be retained, such
as the directory and file-filter you were using. For this to work you must save your renaming criteria to a

Favourites file, using «Save as…»

Only one instance of the application may be launched. If you try to run the application, and there is already a
version running, then the original instance will be displayed.

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If you chose the Complete installation option then the easiest way to access the Bulk Rename Utility dialog is from
Windows Explorer itself. Simply highlight the folder or files which you wish to rename, and then either right-click or press
shift Function Key 10 and select «Bulk Rename Here» from the context menu. Also, if you’ve previously saved the
renaming criteria to a Favourite file then you can double-click that Favourite file to launch the application.

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Renaming Files and Folders

It is easy to rename files and folders:

1. Select the folder which contains the objects you wish to rename. If required, you may also specify a file
filter to restrict your list.

2. Enter the renaming criteria. The column beside the file name (‘New Name’) will show you what the new
file name will become.

3. Select the files you wish to process (use CTRL or SHIFT to select multiple files).

4. Hit the Rename button. (IMPORTANT: This button is not enabled unless you have selected one or more
files/folders to rename)

Note: You can sort the file list using the column headers, as you would do in Windows Explorer.
The files will always be processed in the displayed sequence — useful when you’re using the Numbering

facility.

The renaming criteria are processed from left to right, according to the number listed against each
section

So for example, a text replace will be performed before a change of case. The specific operations are as
follows:

1) Apply any fixed name changes from an imported text file

2) Apply any Regular Expression reformatting [ RegEx (1) ]

3) Remove any file name, or use a fixed name [ File (2) ]

4) Perform any text substitutions [ Repl. (3) ]

5) Perform Character Translations [ Special (14) ]

6) Perform any changes of case [ Case (4) ]

7) Remove n digits from the start, middle or end of the filename, and optionally remove certain characters,

and/or all characters, and/or all digits and/or all symbols and/or all high-ascii characters [ Remove (5) ]

Move any text from the start, middle or end of the filename to the start, middle or end of the filename

[ Move/Copy (6) ]

9) Add any prefixes or suffixes, or apply text to the middle of the filename. Suffixes are added at the end of

the filename, i.e. before any file extension [ Add (7) ]

10) Apply any «auto-date» text as a prefix or suffix. «Sep» is the text to insert between the filename and the

date; «Seg» is the separator between the day, month, year, hour, minute and second segments. Or you can
use a custom date format. [ Auto Date (8) ]

11) Add the containing folder name as a prefix or a suffix, with a user-defined separator [ Append Folder

Name (9) ]

12) Perform any auto-numbering [ Numbering (10) ]

13) Make any changes to the case of the file extension, or change the extension [ Extension (11) ]

14) Process Javascript code [ Special (14) ]. This is the last step.

The selected files will be renamed according to your selection criteria. You can select multiple files by holding
down the SHIFT or CTRL keys. If there are any problems with the rename operation then you will be given the
option to roll back (undo) the operation.

Remember — you can always preview the new name in the file list. This allows you to refine your criteria before
actually renaming the files.

To preserve your renaming criteria for the next time you use the utility, save the renaming criteria to a

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Favourite file.

You can use the Reset button to reset all your renaming criteria back to the default values (or the smaller R
buttons to just reset one group).

Changes to File Timestamps and/or to File Attributes are also applied if specified in Special (14).

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Actions Menu

The actions menu provides you with a variety of shortcuts to speed up common tasks, and these are
described below.

Select All (Ctrl+A)

This will select all the files and folders in the file-list window.

Deselect All (Ctrl+D)

This will de-select all the files and folders in the file-list window.

Invert Selection (Ctrl+I)

Any entry which is currently selected will be de-selected, and vice-versa. Handy for two-pass renames, where
you want to rename a whole batch of files in one go, then rename «everything else» in another go.

Select from Clipboard

If you have a list of file names on the clipboard (such as the output from DIR /B) then the software will try to
select files which match the names from the clipboard.

Jump to Path (Ctrl+J)

This option will display a window, allowing you to type or select a full pathname to navigate to. The path must
exist (it will be validated) and it must map to a drive letter. UNC paths are not supported.

Rename Object Manually (F2)

Enable manual name editing of the selected object in the file list.

Refresh Files (F5)

This will refresh the contents of the right-hand file-list window.

Refresh Tree (Ctrl+F5)

This will refresh the contents of the left-hand tree window. Note that you can refresh the contents of the
selected branch by collapsing and re-expanding the branch.

Show/Hide Tree (F11)

This will hide or show the folder «tree». This is useful if you have located your folder and you are now doing
lots of work in the one folder. The «tree» can be removed to give you more space. Note: The tree will always
be visible at program startup, even if it was hidden when you closed the program.

Zoom (F8)

This allows you to launch a new window to edit the current text field. Space on the screen is limited, and
some fields are small, so this option allows you to enter long text with ease. You can type text into the new
window, in a larger font, and the text will then appear in the field on the main screen.

List

List > Reposition > Move Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Swap, Remove from List

Allows you to reposition/reorganize items in the file list, useful for renumbering.

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List -> Apply Random Sort to Current List

This allows you to sort the file list in a random sequence. Useful if you want to create a slideshow in a
random display-sequence. Once you’ve sorted in random order, apply a numeric auto-number prefix to
keep the list in that order.

List -> Show Only Items Affected by Renaming Criteria

This allows you to only show the files which will be renamed by renaming criteria, select files first and then
this action.

List -> Clear All Items from Current List

This allows you to clear all items from list (items are not deleted from disk, only cleared from Bulk Rename
Utility file list)

List -> Auto-Select All Items After Listing a Folder

Let all files and folders be selected automatically when the list of files/folders is built.

Import Rename-Pairs

Import rename pairs to be used for renaming (renaming from a text file).

View Imported Rename-Pairs

If you have imported rename pairs then this option will show the list of pairs imported.

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Clear Imported Rename-Pairs

If you have imported rename pairs then this option will clear the list of pairs.
Normally the list would only be removed by loading a different list or by exiting the application.

Debug New Name

If you have a one (and only one) file or folder selected in the right-hand pane then this menu item becomes
available. What this will do is display a simple dialog box which shows how the file’s «new name» has been
derived. This can help when you are using lots of the controls and boxes, and you aren’t getting the end
result that you are expecting.

Reset All Renaming Criteria (Ctrl+T)

This allows you to quickly reset all the renaming-criteria which are currently selected. Handy if you want to
start from scratch. (This won’t reset your file-selection and new-location items, groups 12 and 13).

Reset All Criteria to Last Saved (Ctrl+E)

Reverts all renaming criteria to the last saved status.

Preview (Ctrl+P)

Preview all the renaming actions, before actually renaming (name change, timestamp change, attribute
change, etc). This is an alternative to pressing the PREVIEW button on the screen.

Rename (Ctrl+R)

Actually perform the rename. This is an alternative to pressing the RENAME button on the screen.

Undo Rename (Ctrl+Z)

If you have just performed a rename activity, and then said «oops…» then this is the option you need. This

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function will try to «undo» your last rename activity (including any timestamp and attribute changes you
made). The files are processed in reverse order, so even if you renamed folders, and files within the folders,
the full operation should be reversed successfully.

Create Undo Batch File (Ctrl+B)

Similar to Undo Rename above, this will allow you to create a DOS batch file which can be run from the
command line, and which will reverse out your last renaming operation.

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