A different kind of Rename From List

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A different kind of Rename From List

Postby ant_tm » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:40 pm

Hi Jim - absolutely fantastic app - I should have donated long ago - fixed that today :)

One of the most common rename situations I have is where I have a list of files in a sorted order and a list of names to match. What I usually do is to use BRU to massage the file names into something consistant and then use excel to create a batch file [eg =concatenate("ren ",A1,".avi ","""",A1," - ",B1,".avi","""")]. While this works well - it can be a little tedious. I could use excel to create the rename from list file to import into BRU (only found that option today :) but it would be nicer to totally do away with the excel/create a file phase.

So, my suggestion is to have a textbox that would contain a list of names/titles. Each file selected for rename consumes a line from the textbox. This still allows the insert autonumber functionality as well.

Thanks for hearing me out :)

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Re: A different kind of Rename From List

Postby Admin » Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:09 pm

I think I follow. So if your file listing was

A
B
C
D
E

and you only selected

A
B
E,

if your "rename list" was

1
2
3

then the new filenames would become

A >> 1
B >> 2
C >> C
D >> D
E >> 3


Does that sound like the same thing?



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