User manual BULK RENAME UTILITY BULK RENAME UTILITY

[. . . ] HelpAndManual_illegal_keygen Bulk Rename Utility Jim Willsher 2000-2007 HelpAndManual_illegal_keygen Bulk Rename Utility A utility to rename files and folders with ease! by Jim Willsher This is the PDF Manual for Bulk Rename Utility. A Windows Help File (. CHM) is installed onto your computer when you install the software, but this manual might be useful you wish to read the help information cover to cover. HelpAndManual_illegal_keygen Bulk Rename Utility Jim Willsher 2000-2007 Please do not make any changes to this PDF file. Any mistakes in this manual are due to my lousy typing skills!Printed: 30 August 2007 I Bulk Rename Utility Table of Contents Foreword 0 Part I Application Overview 1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] However, in a recursive scan, sub-folders will still be scanned regardless of the length of the subfolder's name New Location - This allows you to leave the original files intact, but create copies of the files (with new names, of course) in a separate folder. This option will honour the "Overwrite Target Files" menu option. Command Buttons R - at the top of each group of controls there is a button entitled simply R. This will reset the criteria in that particular box. Checkbox - at the top of each group of controls there is a checkbox. This will enable or disable an entire "group" without wiping out your settings. Useful if you want to temporarily disable some criteria, Reset - Reset all your renaming criteria to the default values Revert - Reset all your renaming criteria to the values from your current Favourites file (if loaded). Rename - Actually perform the rename operation, using the criteria you have entered, on the files you have selected. You can always see the number of selected files in the utility's status bar. Note that this button is enabled once you have selected one or more files for renaming. Zoom Note that many of the text fields on the screen are quite small. To allow for reasonable editing you can press F8 on these fields to display a new, larger window. 2. 4 Changing File Attributes Bulk Rename Utility allows you to change the attributes of files and folders once they have been renamed. This can be useful if you wish to flag all renamed files/folders as requiring archiving, or if you want to hide all the renamed files/folders. As well as making a file read-only, hidden etc. , you can also clear the same flags. Each of the main File Attribute settings is shown in the dialog window: Jim Willsher 2000-2007 Using the Application 15 For each of the attributes you can choose to set the attribute, clear the attribute, or leave it unchanged. This gives you flexible control over how the files and folders will appear once they have been renamed. If you are updating the file's attributes information, this will be reflected in the application main window, as the attribute field will be coloured Note If you set the attribute for a file, it will disappear from the main window upon renaming if you do not have Hidden or System options ticked in the Selections group (group 12). 2. 5 Changing File Timestamps Bulk Rename Utility allows you to change the timestamp information for files and folders once you have renamed them. This is useful if you have certain applications which use a file's timestamp in order to identify if a file has been modified, of if you want to sort photographs in a particular sequence. Some older applications even use the timestamp to identify a product version. Jim Willsher 2000-2007 16 Bulk Rename Utility You can choose a new date and timestamp for the Created Date, Modified Date Accessed Date, and they are independent of each other. You can also choose a value of "Current" which will use the current date and time at the time of renaming. New with version 2. 5. 4. 1 you can also apply a delta. This is a value in days, followed by HH:MM:SS, and this value will be added (or subtracted) from the timestamp. So for example, if you rely upon timestamps and you realise your computer's clock is wrong, you can use this facility to batch-correct the timestamps. This will NOT update the "date taken" information held within a picture file. [. . . ] So, you could enter a custom value of "Created on %a, %d %B, %Y" to get "Created on Tuesday, 25th March, 2004" 3. 12 Recursive Scans It is possible to perform a recursive scan and rename from the current folder. This allows you to rename folders and files contained within any subdirectories from the current folder. Subdirectories of subdirectories are also scanned, right down to the lowest level. This option needs to be treated with great care - if you scan a high-level folder such as C:\ or C:\Program Files then the program could have tens of thousands of files to scan. [. . . ]