Best way to rename files to calendar days in order
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:42 pm
Basically I currently have a bunch of files separated into folders based on their dates. Each file was downloaded today in order of increasing date (past to present). They have generic names like report.pdf, report (1).pdf, report (2).pdf, where for example, report.pdf would be for a report generated for 03-01-2017; report (1).pdf would be for a report generated for 03-02-2017, and so on so forth.
I did this before using BRU in the past, but it's been a while and I seem to have forgotten what I had done before. Is there an easy way to go about doing this? I imagine, I could just rename everything to something like 03-01-2017 first, and then follow up by removing the '01', and adding an ascending number in it's place.
Is there an easier way to do this? The auto-date, as far as I can tell, wouldn't work because all the files were downloaded today.
I did this before using BRU in the past, but it's been a while and I seem to have forgotten what I had done before. Is there an easy way to go about doing this? I imagine, I could just rename everything to something like 03-01-2017 first, and then follow up by removing the '01', and adding an ascending number in it's place.
Is there an easier way to do this? The auto-date, as far as I can tell, wouldn't work because all the files were downloaded today.