Questions tagged [bulk-rename]
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Can I use some some LLM/AI-based technology to name image files?
I have a bunch of image files in a folder - quite a few of them. Say, 1,000 or even 10,000. Now, for reasons, these files are named using sequential numbers (e.g. 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg and so on), or otherwise have arbitrary names.
I could give each…
einpoklum
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How can I add current file size to the file name
I lost heaps of important data, plus failed backups etc. I did some recoveries but laptop drive had other plans, pushed data out of valid files + some recovery files had mismatched names or recovered files full of zeros (wiped data).
Because there’s…
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How to use Powertoys PowerRename in Windows to remove similar strings from many filenames?
I need to remove from a file name which looks like this:
פניקס תלוש אוקטובר 2024 (2024_10_11 10_44_49 UTC) (the text is in Hebrew)
the string to remove is "(2024_10_11 10_44_49 UTC)"
I have many files like this in many directories.
How can I do it…
Shimon Beer
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Bulk rename a list of file names in windows based on inconsistent date naming scheme
I have a long list of files where various clerks named them inconsistently. They will all have names that begin with a series of numbers representing a 'date' followed by a description. Example
12-16-21…
jchwebdev
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Which regex can I use to replace Greek capital vocals with tonos to ones without it, in Bulk Rename Utility application?
I would like to replace in a lot of filenames, the Greek capital vocals with tonos, with the ones without it:
Ά > Α
Έ > Ε
Ή > Η
Ί > Ι
Ό > Ο
Ύ > Υ
Ώ > Ω
I know how to replace them one by one, but I think RegEx is the best approach, to replace all of…
geotso
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Rename subfolders from a CSV
I have a structure with multiple subfolders and I would like to rename the file and (sub)folders by introducing a code with a structure as follows:
1 (folder)
1.1 (subfolder)
1.1.1 (file)
or alternatively attribute a specific name from a CSV. I have…
UserEC
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Replacing text case inside the parentheses
For example I have the files with the following names:
Apple (Fruit).txt
Palm (Tree).txt
How can I transform their names to
Apple (fruit).txt
Palm (tree).txt
with RegExp using Bulk Rename Utility?
Or without RegExp in case it is not needed to…
YKKY
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How to sort, index, and rename files in a folder or create a new folder with sorted links to the original files?
This command in a bash prompt properly sorts files in a target folder. The sort occurs on the third field in descending order as shown below:
$ find -printf '%f\n' | sort -r -k3
bfilename Desc 1068%.html
afilename Desc 298%.html
I want to show…
SystemTheory
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Windows 10 - Recover missing content of large folder
I have a large pictures folder, most of then "bulk" downloaded using Hitomi Downloader, DownThemAll and similar. Yesterdary I ran a Powershell command I always use to rename the last downloaded files and found the folder empty (aside the renamed…
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Rename files with symmetric cipher
I would like to batch obfuscate file names (not file content) with a simple symmetric cipher. So that I can rename them back afterwards. For example, using the online blowfish encryption on http://sladex.org/blowfish.js/ with key "hello", ECB cipher…
Dr Ljotsson
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Recursively remove a character from folders in Windows
Given a folder structure:
---- folder1#name
--------- folder2#name
---- folder3#name
--------- folder4#name
------------ folder5#name
------------ folder6#name
------------ folder7#name
I want to recurisvely go through them and just rename the…
Edd Chang
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Add text at the end of files name in Total Commander
am new to TC and I would need to add one text to Files name:
CCERTASD_IV_CUSTOMENAME_1234_12345
TO
CCERTASD_IV_CUSTOMENAME_1234_12345 PV AAAAAA
PV AAAAA the same for all
means keep the same naming and just add PV AAAAA.
All files are pdf files.
Mohamed
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Bulk removal of file name after an underscore
How do I get 2114_1_e44db1eb-5700-49b9-b5db-b952bf73d5c21254f617-a970-443e-aded-9608a648c7a3.mp4 to just 2114_1.mp4?
I want to delete all text and numbers after and including the second_
Troy Liard
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