Bulk Rename Utility

Apologies if something similar has already been asked. I just discovered BRU a few hours ago and I've successfully renamed some files in my comic collection, but I'm stumped on how to add the dates the way I want them.

I have a list of files like this:

Title v1 #01.cbr
Title v1 #02.cbr
Title v1 #03.cbr

I want to add dates formatted like this: (MM-YYYY)

Title v1 #01 (11-1989).cbr
Title v1 #02 (12-1989).cbr
Title v1 #03 (01-1990).cbr

How do I do that?

Hello, see Auto Date (8) and use a custom format. thanks

I thought Auto-Date just pulled dates from a file's metadata. That doesn't work for cbz and cbr files, since the date the comic was published is unrelated to the file.

Where are the dates to be taken from? thanks

It's usually on the cover or first page. Otherwise I look it up online. I want to be able to enter one date and have the program add one month to each file after that - assuming it's a monthly series.

Is that possible?

I think the only way is to create a list of file rename pairs in Excel (from -> to) and then import that into BRU (See Import Rename Pairs functionality of BRU).

That's more work than just adding them manually. I guess I'll just keep doing what I've been doing. Maybe in the next version, the devs can add the ability to use dates unrelated to metadata.