I have a digital camera and it names it’s files DSCNxxxx.jpg. I want to rename these files to something that has some meaning to me. I’m looking for a file or program that would allow me to rename a group of files by specifying a set of say 5 or 6 charactors and automatically sequence the remainder. Such as change DSCN0001.jpg through DSCN0099.jpg to NWS00001.jpg etc. No requirement to limit file names to 8+3.
I’m tired of doing one-at-a-time.
Any help would be appreciated.
I haven,t tried this program myself, but it looks like it was designed to do exactly what you are describing.
From a DOS prompt you can do it with the REN command. To accomplish your example, use:
REN DSCN*.jpg NWS0*.jpg
This would rename all files that start with DSCN, keeping intact the characters that are replaced by the asterisks. The reason that I added the “0” to the new name is because you had an extra one in your example. It could just have easily said NWS*.jpg. The only difference is the file name would have been 7 characters (nothing wrong with that).
Thanks for the help.
DMC
I had not used DOS for some time and had forgotten about renaming with wildcards.
mblackwell
I tried the program and it seems to work although I get error codes.
A search in Yahoo for “file renaming” provided http://www.freewarehome.com/utilities/rename.html which offers many to choose from. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that at first!
Thanks