The advent of digital cameras has changed the way we take pictures. With film cameras, which offered a relatively tiny number of photos per roll of film, budding photogs used to take their time ...

What do you use for this stuff? Ok paying up to $10 but free would be best. I want something with regex for file name matching. I used a great tool for this back in the day, and it did all that stuff ...

Microsoft updated the open-source PowerToys toolset for Windows 10 with a new utility named PowerRename that will allow users to batch rename large file collections. "PowerRename is a Windows Shell ...

If you ever find yourself needing to rename several files at once, Mac OS comes with several inbuilt options for getting the job done. Taylor Martin has covered technology online for over six years.

When I was preparing inline graphics—the little images embedded in a line of text—for my Take Control of Numbers book, I was almost finished when I remembered that the filenames needed to adhere to a ...

Everybody hates it when they have to rename a fileset to fit a new naming scheme. Instead of doing it the hard way and writing a one-time script to go through and rename everything, check out Bulk ...

File Renamer allows you to rename batches of files all at once by specifying a rule and clicking a button. If you have a lot of badly named files on your PC, renaming them is extremely tedious, to say ...

One of OS X 10.10 Yosemite’s most useful new features — batch renaming in the Finder — has gone largely overlooked in the weeks since its release. In the past, you had to use a third-party utility, ...

There’s nothing like staring down the barrel of multiple files you know you’ll have to rename. Sure, there are batch file naming utilities in the App store — and I’ve used most of them — but until ...

A reader who wishes to remain anonymous would prefer to forego some busy work. He writes: I’ve been working on a project for a couple of months where I created a few hundred files using this naming ...