A different kind of Rename From List

[ant_tm]

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

Antman

[Admin]

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?



Jim