Have to rename a bunch of TIF files.

[dharvey]

Hi all,

When my old program scans in documents it saves them to file based on the record number. Thus scanned tif file for record 19435 is saved as 00000019.435.
My new program saves scanned files to the record number also but names the scanned tif file for record 19435.tif
So I need to rename all the scanned tif files (about 1500) to the new name format and having a little trouble.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

[Stefan]

Hi dharvey, welcome.

Hi all,

When my old program scans in documents it saves them to file based on the record number. Thus scanned tif file for record 19435 is saved as 00000019.435.
My new program saves scanned files to the record number also but names the scanned tif file for record 19435.tif
So I need to rename all the scanned tif files (about 1500) to the new name format and having a little trouble.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

FROM:
00000000.001
00000019.435
TO:
00001
19435


Plan A:

Could you just drop the old names "00000019.435" and do an fresh numbering?
- Make an copy of your real files and use this to test the following.
- add your old files to BRU
- be sure they are in the right order: 1, 2, 3, ...
- File(2): Remove
- Numbering(10): Prefix, Start 1, Pad 5
Select a few files in the Name column to see how the NewName would be.
Press [Rename] if you are sure to rename.

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If not we could try an second way:


Plan B:


- Make an copy of your real files and use this to test the following.
- add your old files to BRU

1. rule)
FROM:
00000000.001
00000019.435
TO:
00000000001
00000019435
- Replace(3): Repl.: . (dot) With: (nothing)

2. rule)
FROM:
00000000001
00000019435
TO:
00001
19435
- Remove(5): First n: 6

You can do both rules 1 + 2 at once.
Select a few files in the Name column to see how the NewName would be.
Press [Rename] if you are sure to rename.

[dharvey]

Thanks Stefan,

Think this will get me started on the right track. Both of the old and new program makes use of the same internal system ID number to match the tif' files to a particular record except that the old program scans and saves the tif off the id as 00000019.348 for record system Id 19348 and the new program saves the tif file as 19348.tif

I am having to rewrite and update my old program since I upgraded one machine to Windows7 and have not found a supplier of the old kodak ocx files that were dropped my Microsoft.