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332925 2005-03-11 00:06:00 Good afternoon all

Ok I will explain the problem first

I have several hundred images (of machinery parts, not anything dodgy) they are labelled as follows

ab12345.jpg
ab6543.jpg
abwxdfg3.jpg
etc

now I need to replace the 'ab' part with 'abc', now every program I have looked at allows me to add prefixes to image filenames or remove spaces from them, but I can't find one that allows me to remove the existing prefix, so if anyone knows one preferably free, (or a common commercial programs as i have access to some of these through contacts).

I know I can manually change them, but batch processing would be much easier



Thanks Nigel 		Morgenmuffel (187)
332926 2005-03-11 00:23:00 In XP u can select all the files. Select all / F2 to rename all pics

And give it a name. ie: If u rename the first pic abc, It'll rename the other pics like abc(1) abc(2) etc..automatically.

This feature is part of XP, if u have it.

That what u want? 		Speedy Gonzales (78)
332927 2005-03-11 00:41:00 Irfanview has a batch rename that can replace a pattern "ab" with "abc" leaving the rest as original. PaulD (232)
332928 2005-03-11 00:45:00 I use Renameit! which should do what you wish . You browse to and select your files, create a rule, view the expected results and if OK allow it to go ahead and rename them .

The rule you would be wanting is Crop but if your file names are various sizes you are going to be careful how you set it up . I strongly suggest experimenting with a bunch of copied files to get the rule right before you do the lot .

You can grab the program from here ( . freedownloadscenter . com/Utilities/File_Maintenance_and_Repair_Utilities/RenameIt_ . html" target="_blank">www . freedownloadscenter . com) but I see that is version 2 . 04 whereas I have 2 . 06 and I can't remember it being shareware . It is by the same author though . 		FoxyMX (5)
332929 2005-03-11 01:56:00 In XP u can select all the files. Select all / F2 to rename all pics

And give it a name. ie: If u rename the first pic abc, It'll rename the other pics like abc(1) abc(2) etc..automatically.

This feature is part of XP, if u have it.


That's a cool feature I never knew existed! Just tried it and worked a charm on a test bunch of files. 		Greg (193)
332930 2005-03-11 02:02:00 That's a cool feature I never knew existed! Just tried it and worked a charm on a test bunch of files .

Yup I didnt know either lol till I read it in Netguide .

XP is the only OS that can do it . OS's under XP can't . 		Speedy Gonzales (78)
332931 2005-03-11 05:49:00 Irfanview has a batch rename that can replace a pattern "ab" with "abc" leaving the rest as original.

Thanks all, the above suggestion worked although I had to update my version of irfanview 		Morgenmuffel (187)
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