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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Computer Usage and Setup Help => Topic started by: noobnonin on July 02, 2013, 12:37:05 am
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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?
Regards
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Call them "noob1", "noob2", "noob3", etc?
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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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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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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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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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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 (http://techie-buzz.com/softwares/top-free-utilities-to-rename-multiple-files.html) and this one (http://www.howtogeek.com/111859/how-to-batch-rename-files-in-windows-4-ways-to-rename-multiple-files/) seem to be fairly promising for finding an easy solution to your problem (if there is one).
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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
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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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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 >.<