Batch renaming files

[Zom]

I have a whole load of files that I want to rename. Basically I want to remove the first 8 characters from the start of the file name. Does anyone know of any utilities that could do this for me?

 

[Zom]

anyone?

 

[manveruppd]

That's a toughie... It's easy to add characters to the end of filenames, as in
ren *.* *xxx.*
but removing characters I've never done... Can you give us a screenshot of the filenames in that folder? Is the rest of the filename after the first 8 digits identical in all the files?

 

[hp01jpc]

I have found this to be extremely handy:

http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php

It's also really customisable, you can rename files in almost every way you can think.

Hope you get some joy with it.

 

[bitslice]

assuming all the files look like this:
"12345678abcd.jpg"


then this batch will strip the first 8 chars and rename the file:


strip.bat
-----------------------------------
cd c:\pron

for %%J in (*.JPG) do call :sub %%J

:sub
SET STRING=%1
SET STRING=%STRING:~8,15%
ECHO String: %1 -- %STRING%
ren %1 %STRING%
-----------------------------------


I'm not totally happy with this, but it appears to work OK.
(...tweakers welcome!)

let me know how it works for you

.

 

[Zom]

Thanks for all your help guys - I downloaded that bulk renaming prog. It was just the job .

 

[bitslice]

meh,
"downloading" a program to do something ?

tsk, tsk, you'll be playing shop-bought games next !

kids these days....bah


.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I do this all the time in a program called Directory Opus.

 

[GSXRMovistar]

I have found this to be extremely handy:

http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php

It's also really customisable, you can rename files in almost every way you can think.

Hope you get some joy with it.

Yep great little app.