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help renaming
« on: July 02, 2013, 12:37:05 am »
Good day

this is a silly subject but still i dont know how to do it,

i wish to know how can i rename a lot of files but with the conditions that they get ordered by numbers, for example: if i have 50 files called "noob" but i wanted to be called 1,2,3,4,5,6.... and so on until 50! how can i do this?

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Re: help renaming
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2013, 12:38:02 am »
Call them "noob1", "noob2", "noob3", etc?
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Re: help renaming
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2013, 12:41:01 am »
On Windows, select  all of them, then  right click the first one and select "rename..." then enter the name you want the files to have. On Linux, download a program to do it for you.
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Re: help renaming
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2013, 12:44:46 am »
Its not really possible to have more than 1 file with the same name in the same directory (in most cases at least).

Are you looking to create a heap of files with sequential filenames or is it something else.

Basically what exactly are the files that you have?
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Re: help renaming
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2013, 01:00:52 am »
Quote from: aeTIos on July 02, 2013, 12:41:01 am
On Windows, select  all of them, then  right click the first one and select "rename..." then enter the name you want the files to have. On Linux, download a program to do it for you.

Wow, I didn't even know you could do this. That's pretty neat. Of course you can't enter a custom pattern of how numbers get added, but I wouldn't expect that anyways except from a more specific tool meant to do things like this.
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Re: help renaming
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2013, 01:03:39 am »
please read....

its not noob1,noob2,noob3 or noob(1)  noob(2) noob(3)

i just want them to be ordered like numbers just 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 etc until 50
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Re: help renaming
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2013, 01:10:58 am »
Where are the individual files located (in relation to each other)? If each one is called noob, they would have to be in different folders and I imagine that it isn't easy for multi-file renaming tools to handle files scattered across different folders.

EDIT: I did a quick web search. This article and this one seem to be fairly promising for finding an easy solution to your problem (if there is one).
« Last Edit: July 02, 2013, 01:12:57 am by Runer112 »
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Re: help renaming
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2013, 01:20:57 am »
everything is in the same file by the way im on windows and i dont want them to get numbers in parenthesis, just want them to rename as numbers just numbers like 5,6,7,8, etc
« Last Edit: July 02, 2013, 01:22:21 am by noobnonin »
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Re: help renaming
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2013, 01:35:34 am »
Are all of these files the same file with different names that you want to change? The only issue is that you could have done it manually by now :).

Can you post a screenshot of the exact contents of your folder?
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Re: help renaming
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2013, 03:42:00 am »
Quote from: aeTIos on July 02, 2013, 12:41:01 am
On Windows, select  all of them, then  right click the first one and select "rename..." then enter the name you want the files to have. On Linux, download a program to do it for you.
At first, I thought that trick didn't work or was an urban legend, because clicking rename only seemed to rename 1 file, but now I tried again and this time I hit enter to see what would happen and it worked. It's really misleading, because it makes you think it won't work until you actually confirm the renaming >.<
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