Utility: File Rename

1. It is a very good idea to backup the files that you wish to rename, so that you can easily recover from accidentally renaming them improperly!

2. Click the Clear button above.

3. In the same folder as the files which are to be renamed, create a file called “go.bat,” by clicking File/New/Text Document.

4. Edit this empty file by right clicking it’s icon, and selecting “Edit.”

5. Enter the line: dir /b *.mp3 >dir.txt, and save the file.

6. Double click the go.bat icon. A file called “dir.txt” will then be created.

7. Double click the dir.txt icon, and copy/paste it’s contents into “Text Box 1” above. (There is no need to enter anything into “Text Box 2.”)

8. Click the Go button in order to create the .bat file content in “Text Box 3.” Do not make any changes to the data contained in “Text Box 1!”

9. So far we have a .bat file content in “Text Box 3” which renames every file to the same name. This is not very useful, so to get a list of DOS rename (ren) commands which actually do something, either edit the contents of “Text Box 3” directly, or edit the file name list in “Text Box 2” and then click Go again. The editing could be done by copy/pasting it into my “Super Text Editor” (http://llbest.com/?P=71).

10. Copy/paste the contents of “Text Box 3” into the previously created go.bat file, replacing the one line that it already contains, and then save it again.

11. Double click the go.bat file icon. This will cause the desired file renames to be performed.

12. If you don’t like the way in which the files were renamed, copy/paste the contents of “Text Box 4” into a new .bat file such as “undo.bat” and then double-click on it’s icon to restore all of the files to their original file names.