Compare and Rename Files

[Fleuch]

This follows on from a post in another thread.

Consider two different hard drives. The same files are saved on each HDD but with different names and there is a requirement to synchronise the file names on both drives without having to do it file by file. Where there are a large number of folders with a reasonable number of files in each folder, setting up a .csv or .txt file for each folder is labor intensive.

One possible approach is to select and copy file names from one drive and replace/paste file names on second drive, after shifting focus in BRU to the second drive.

Another is a split window showing both drives, files highlighted in each window accompanied by a copy file name only and transfer direction commands.

[Admin]

Do the files to 'match and rename' have the exact same content but different names?

[Fleuch]

The contents need not be identical so "Compare" is not a good subject heading! Perhaps "Sync File Names between Folders" is marginally better.

The sequence I have in mind is: open a folder on HDD1, highlight the source files in the folder, select a copy command, open a folder on HDD2, highlight the same number of target files, select a paste command to rename the target files in the folder on HDD2. The names of the files on both HDD's are then the same. A variation is that it can be used to rename files in different folders on the same HDD.

At the moment I have to do this file by file, but it would be a simpler task if it could be done folder by folder. Setting up a text file where a large number of folders and files are involved is error prone, which explains why a copy and paste method would be much appreciated.

It is only the file names that are important.