File Renamer Help

 
Update Type - File Name

The Advanced tab allows you to create filenames in virtually any method you like.

You can get a full list of keywords by clicking on the Insert Keyword button. You can insert as many keywords as you like, and you can type regular text in as well. For example, if you wanted to rename your files with the file and folder name, you could type something in like this:

<filename> -- <folder>.<ext>

Which would turn: c:\test\document.pdf into: c:\test\document -- test.pdf

Again, you can insert as many keywords as you like, and you can put them in any order you like. You can also put as much regular text in addition to keywords you want in:

Second example:

important document - <filename> - confidential - <yy><mm><dd>.<ext>

The above would turn: document1.pdf into: important document - document1 - confidential - 080425.pdf
This example assumes todays date is: 4/25/2008, which in yymmdd format is 080425

Unique Parameters:

There are currently two forms of unique parameters supported in the advanced type, increment numbers, and decrement numbers:

<unique_in,mask,start,step>

unique_in: is short for Unique Increment Number
mask: example: 0000, xxxx, 0, ####, etc...
Start: the number to start the increment from
Step: how many numbers to increment between files

Example:

testfile1.pdf
testfile2.pdf
testfile3.pdf

<filename><unique_in,0000,1,1>.<ext>

testfile1-0001.pdf
testfile2-0002.pdf
testfile3-0003.pdf

Derement works exactly the same, only it decreases the number instead of increases.

testfile1.pdf
testfile2.pdf
testfile3.pdf

<filename><unique_dn,####,100,2>.<ext>

testfile1-#100.pdf
testfile2-##98.pdf
testfile3-##96.pdf

 


 
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