
Any changes made to that filter will later be displayed in the overview as well. A click on the + sign in front of a filter will open the configuration menu of that filter. It contains ten options to rename the selected files which can be divided into options to add and remove characters. The scripting tab is the main tab in the renaming process.

The lower part of the interface consists of four tabs that are used to configure the renaming. This is also the location where the new file names can be previewed before starting the renaming. A file filter is available to display only files matching a certain pattern. The upper part consists of a file browser that is displaying the directory structure of the computer system on the left side and the actual files of the active directory on the right.

The main reason for that are the buttons and options that are presented to the user in the lower half of the interface. Rename Master's interface looks and feels slightly more complicated than that of Caterpixer.

Rename Master is an advanced tool to batch rename files that is offering these features and more. It was an easy to use software program that lacked a few advanced features like file filters or regular expression support. Click on Folder Options, and scroll down the window and disable Hide extensions for known file types and click OK. For previous versions of Windows including Windows 7, search for Folder Options in the Start menu. Maybe one of you suggestions is such a program I'll give them a try.We reviewed Caterpixer yesterday, a program to comfortably rename and copy files in the Windows operating system. Simply select the file that you want to rename or delete and press F2 and change the extension to something else such as. I hope to find a program like "1-4a Rename 1.56" + friendly interface + some more usefull options.

You can see the changes you will make to files in real time while you are typing the filter rules you want to use - in the left you see the original files and in the right how the files will look like after the change. It hasn't the option to rename only the selected files.īut it has the very usefull option "preview of the changes". Then I used "1-4a Rename 1.56" program and managed to do what I wanted but it is very complicated, missing features and with very non-friendly user interface. I think the program was "The Rename 2.1.6" - very bad program (bad bad bad). I have tried to put a "The " in the begginig of some files and instead of that the program rename one of them (the whole file name) to "The" without extension :evil: and the other files renamed to "Copy of. Click to expand.I've created this thread because of such programs.
