Hello!
A few months back I bought an (admittedly cheap and probably dodgy) MP3 player off of Amazon, and wanted to organise a whole bunch of my music files to put onto the player. I found Bulk Rename Utility, which was exactly what I needed.
After using the utility on one large folder full of MP3's, and attempting to transfer the files to the MP3 player, my HDD corrupted. (Corrupted that particular sector at least; the folder which I used BRU on and transferred was totally inaccessible. Could not be accessed, or even deleted. Even clicking on the folder caused Windows Explorer and the Disk itself to crash, requiring a system reboot. Disk check utilities from Microsoft and the Drive Manufacturer would crash and go unresponsive.. that sector of the drive was totally un-salvageable. A tech friend of mine told me I'd need to stop using the drive altogether, as corruption can spread throughout the drive.)
Months later, I have a new phone and want to edit my massive music collection. I desperately want to use BRU, but I'm worried the same thing will happen again, and I could potentially damage my current drive / even my phone.
I'm not convinced that BRU was the cause. It could have been either BRU or the crappy cheap MP3 player I bought that's responsible.
I'm leaning towards thinking it's the MP3 player that caused the problems, but I wanted to come here and just check if stuff like this can be a result of using BRU. I really don't want to take the risk until my mind has been put at ease! Could someone tell me if BRU could cause such problems?
Thanks for reading. The Utility is brilliant, and I hope to be using it again soon!