DDGuy

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So here's the deal. I get a bunch of jpg's from a image hosting site which puts a random 3 digit alpha numeric strig plus an Underscore (_) before each file name, which screws up the sorting order totally for someone who downloads them to one directory. So original pic001.jpg, pic002.jpg, pic003.jpg.....becomes x2s_pic001.jpg,a23_pic002.jpg, 124_pic003.jpg..... It irritates me to no end.

I was just curious to know if any of you know of a file renamer software which can strip of, say first 4 characters of EVERY file out of a vast selection of files? This will bring back the original file names in correct sorting order and I will finally have a good night sleep.

....and please spare me the "do google" answer...I have tried various google suggested software which do file remaning but none could do this...

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gravityone

Acdsee is all I can think of.

DDGuy

ACDSee is my bread and butter...it just can't do what I want

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wolf68k

ACDSee does have a batch renamer feature.
Just open the ACDS browser and get to that folder, select all the files you want to rename.
Right-click and select Batch Rename
Follow along from there.

You can rename them to whatever you want and it'll set the numbers as you wish.
If memeory serves (I'm not at my PC right now) you use # where a number goes and you can set the number the sequence will start with.

DDGuy

I have got some great help from you in past but sorry to say that this time your idea won't do. I have done enough research on ACDsee's batch renamer to know that it can't do the renaming the way I described...it will rename them to whatever you like as long as you are able to line them up in the order you want....the trouble is that since the files have a random prefix they are stacked all mixed up...

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wolf68k

So those filenames you listed are the actual filename you're working with?
That is F'ed

Try this, it's called The Rename Program. I've included an action that is set to remove the first 4 characters.
Unzip the files.
Run the EXE
File menu->Open Actions select first4.actions
Project menu->Add Files or Add Directory
Actions menu->Process All

If that's how the right look you want:
Action menu->Show Actions
Delete the one that's there by right-clicking on it and select Remove
From the drop menu, select Delete Section
Beginning: means which character it'll start to delete; 1 mean the first, 2 means the second and so on
Length: means of course how many characters to be removed.

You can also use the Add Text so you can rename them to something that makes more sense to you.
Go from:
124_pic003.jpg
a23_pic002.jpg
x2s_pic001.jpg

To:
Hotbimbo_pic001.jpg
Hotbimbo_pic002.jpg
Hotbimbo_pic003.jpg
or
Hotbimbo001.jpg
Hotbimbo002.jpg
Hotbimbo003.jpg

DDGuy

Jesus Christ !!!! R u a fuckin genius or what ????? you WROTE this thing!!!!

....cause this thing worked like a charm.......it wont get any price in goddamn look and feel but it did something that most file renamer just can't do !!! Brilliant stuff, man...rep your way...

Btw, yesterday I did find a shareware software that could do what I wanted (Win -FR at http://www.tw-software.com/ but I couldn't make the bitch to do the actual remaning. Some stupid problem (may be in the crack) which made it say the file is in use (Of course, file was in use by Win-FR only !!!)

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