One of the tasks that fill our day in litigation support is what I like to call “manipulating data”. One of the ways we need to manipulate data is by renaming a list of files. There are a number of scenarios where this renaming task needs to be completed, but the most obvious would be to rename files with a sequential bates number series.
There are several applications floating around in the litigation support arena and I have used several of them over the years. At one point, I found this one and I've stuck with it primarily because it is very robust and it is free. The name of the application is called Bulk Rename Utility.
For instruction on how to use Bulk Rename Utility, see these Fast Tip Friday tutorials:
Batch Rename Using a Text File
Batch Rename Adding a Prefix and Padding
Below are some of the features.
Rename files, folders or both
Remove, add or change text in the file names
Perform text substitution
Change the case of file names
Remove characters or words
Remove digits or symbols
Append or prepend text to file names
Append dates in many formats
Append the parent folder's name
Auto-number files with flexible rules
Automatically preview the new names
Sort the file details by any column
Group configurations into “favorites”
“Bulk Rename Here” Windows Explorer extension
Directory recursion – process sub-directories too!
Regular Expressions support
Rename files from an input text-file list
Create an “Undo” batch file
Log activity to a log file
Change file and folder date/timestamps (created, modified, accessed)
Change file/folder attributes (hidden, read-only, archived)
All settings retained between sessions
32-bit or 64-bit
Rename photos using EXIF metadata (i.e. “Date Picture Taken”, “Resolution” and other information embedded in all JPG photo files)
Rename MP3 files using ID3 tags (a.k.a. MP3 ID3 tag renaming).
Command line support ***
Bulk Rename Utility is totally free!
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