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. Printed: 30 August 2007 I Bulk Rename Utility Table of Contents Foreword 0 Part I Application Overview 1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] 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. 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. If you are updating the file's timestamp information, this will be reflected in the application main window, as the appropriate date field will be coloured. If you would like to set the Modified and Accessed timestamps to be the same as the Created timestamp then choose the Created option. Windows 98 Users Please note that timestamps on directories cannot be changed (the Windows API simply doesn't exist in '98). FAT versus NTFS 2. 6 Character Translations Character Translations allows you to enter a specific character or sequence of characters, and have that translated into a different character or sequence of characters. So for example, you could specify that you always want a $ sign to be converted into the word DOLLAR. If you wish to actually convert an equals sign to/from something else then you can specify the hex or decimal value for the equals sign in your rules. Bulk Rename Utility identifies the type of value entered by its length. So if your value is one character long then it's a direct character; two characters long and its a hex value; three characters long and its a decimal value. In the following examples, every example is converting a capital "A" to a capital "B" A=B (direct expression of the characters to convert) 41=42 (two character long, therefore hex values) 065=066 (three characters long, therefore decimal values) A=066 (using a mixture of the above) 41=066 (using a mixture of the above) Jim Willsher 2000-2007 Using the Application 17 If you wish to to convert several characters then you can separate the values by commas. So the following example will convert ABC to DEF: 41, 066, C=D, E, 070 If you wish to actually convert a comma sign to/from something else then you can specify the hex or decimal value for the comma sign in your rules. 2. 7 Picture Viewer Bulk Rename Utility allows you to display a preview window, which will show the picture for the currently selected file. Only certain file-types are supported, these being jpeg (JPG), bitmap (BMP) WIndows Metafiles (WMF) and Compuserve Graphical Interchange Format (GIF). [. . . ] Year, with no century indicator (00-99) Year, with century indicator (e. g. 2004) Time zone name Percentage sign You can enter other text in the filename, and the symbols above will be substituted with the values. 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. [. . . ]