Namewright | Batch Rename

Description

See the new name of every file before anything moves. Chain rules, rename them all in one go and undo the whole batch. No account. Works offline.

For anyone back from a trip with a card full of IMG_ names, who scans invoices into a folder, or keeps a music or video collection.

It renames files, not folders. Names are changed where the files are: nothing is moved or deleted. Music tags, series databases and the Explorer right-click menu are not part of this version. A name over 260 characters needs long path support turned on in Windows.

Features

• Rules in a list, each one on or off and moved up or down. Replace, remove, insert, number, case, date, extension and clean.
• Find and replace with plain text or a regular expression, with or without case, the first match or every one.
• A live table with the current name, the new name and the state of each file, and the count of what the batch will do.
• Names that clash or that Windows refuses are marked before the batch runs, and the Rename button waits until the batch can go through.
• Photos named by the day they were taken, from the EXIF of a JPEG, a TIFF or a HEIC, or the header of an MP4 or a MOV. A file with no date says so and uses its own.
• Numbering with a start, a step, leading zeros, its own separator and a choice of where the number goes, starting again in every folder or running through all of them.
• Undo the last batch, even after closing the app. The record of a rename is written before the first file moves.
• Save a list of rules as a preset and use it again on the next folder. Three recipes come with the app.
• Files are renamed in place, never moved, never deleted, and nothing is touched until Rename is pressed.
• 100% offline. No account, no telemetry and nothing sent anywhere; the history, the presets and the settings stay in the app's own folder on this PC.

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