Help photo rename

[mrbump]

I name my photos with the suffix 2010-1, 2010-2, 2010-3, etc. Basically the year the number of the photo. I have been renaming these by manually for along time. (20,000 photos....alot of work and time)

Is there any way I can use Bulk Rename Utility to do this for me?

Thanks in advance

[DefAnt]

Do not put in the quotes
in the RegEx(1) section
Match -> "(.*)"
Replace -> "\1 2010"
~ This will place the year at the suffic of your file name. The (.*) places all text within the variable \1 and you replace it with \1 plus the 2010 year.

Set Numbering(10) section to
Mode -> Suffix
Start -> 1 [You can change this to whatever you want to start at]
Sep. -> -
This will add a "-#" at the end of your file name, placed right after the year.

The above formating will take your filename, example abc1.jpg, abc2.jpg and make it into abc12010-1.jpg and abc22010-2.jpg

Try looking around in other forum posts and looking at some coding. Some helpers explain what the code does so you can learn how you want to bulk rename your thousands of files.

Hope this helps.
DefAnt

[mrbump]

Thanks for the help that gets me part of the way there and I thought I would be able to work the rest out but I am stuck again.

The complete name for my files is like below

2010-1 01 Jan 2010 New Years Day (1)
2010-2 01 Jan 2010 New Years Day (2)
2010-3 01 Jan 2010 New Years Day (3)
2010-4 06 Mar 2010 Claire's Birthday (1)
2010-5 06 Mar 2010 Claire's Birthday (2)

So there is actually two numbering systems the one after the year which will just keep counting up and the one at the end which counts the number of photos from that set of photos. Also in betwee is the date and a short description of the photo.

Some more help putting me in the right direction would be class

Cheers

Max

[DefAnt]

I think the (.*) was keeping everything from the file name correct?

So for the numbering at the end, what you can do is

Add(7)
Suffix " ()"
This adds the Numbering Paranthesises at the end of the filename.

Numbering(10)
Mode - "Insert"
Start - "1"
Pad - "0"
Break - "13"
At - "-1"
Incr. - "1"
Sep. - ""
Type "Base 10 (Decimal)"
Roman Numerals "None"
This setting adds the Numbering at Negative 1, placing it in the Paranthesises. Break 13 allows it to see if a filename is different up to the 13th character which is the month. So it "should" work if the month is the same but the day is different. You can test this by increasing or lowering the Break number. The Mode Insert is best for this style of numbering. Start should stay as 1, Increment stars at 1, Seperator stays at blank, Type is by default a Base 10 [I dont understand this system myself but I kept it at default] and Roman Numerals odviousaly none.


So that should help you with the 2nd Numbering system. Typically I run my Expressions several times before I get the desired effect because my file names are not exact. I'd first have to replace wolverine with Wolverine before my RegEx recognizes the "Wolverine" in the expression.

If you need any other help or this didn't help at all. Just keep asking. I'm sure Stefan or one of the other guys can help better then I can

[mrbump]

That great thanks.