Outstanding video due to the excellent, well-organized presentation. Obviously lots of thought and planning was required and thank you for that. "Subscribing" was a no-brainer.
I just started using PowerRename and couldn't figure out from Microsoft's brief tutorial on how to append a description to the end of the file name, but before the extension (didn't want to add the description to the front, as I sometimes use a long description for the search index). From your example of regular expressions, I was able to figure out how to do that.
Thank you Andy. Very useful indeed. Thank you for sharing. In addition to what you did, I also modified the end of the file name. After adding the prefix e.g. 2024_09_London_(to indicate the name and date of the trip) to the original file name, I then search the word “jpg” in the first box, and then change it to “D800.jpg”. The new file name will have a prefix (date, location) , the original file name and unique number, followed by a suffix showing the camera I used ( I have several cameras). It would be nice to see or to search for photos according to date, location or name of the trip, and what camera used.
This is all fine and dandy. But what if ALL the file names are different and you want to ad something to the beginning of each file name??????? For example, 30 songs, all different names of course. Can I ad, say, YT at the beginning of each file?
Thanks for the video. Is it possible to capture and add the date/time the photo was taken to the name? I need to name them so they sort in the correct order.
The most common renaming feature I need is to append a sequential number to each file in a folder. You do not mention this in this video. Is it possible using Power rename?
Can I just outright just replace the whole filename with my own formatting. I have all the files with a S1E1 format but want to change that to just the Episode number. The format is counting and therefore ever changing so it seems I can't just select the inputed files and wholly change the name to my own format.
It seems others have the same question/issue with no answer. I would think this would be a basic feature of the program, it's pretty straigtforward. Simpler than what it does now.
You would have to use the 'Use regular expressions' option. Of course, you have to know how to use these... ;) . If you click on the 'i' button next to 'search for', it gives you some help.
hey i know im replying to this after 7 months but oh well maybe there is somone else also needing this so here it is: just write .* in the "search for" part *MAKE SURE YOU HAVE "USE REGULAR EXPRESSIONS" TURNED ON* and then just type the thing you want in the "replace with" box eg. i used "${start=1}" which gives all the files numbers going up starting from 1 hope this helps and have a nice day :D
how do you edit it so you completely replace all selected files - without the things inherent in the original files that distinguished them from eachother - so they all come out with the same name but PowerRename auto sorts them - like windows would by enumerating them - but with a letter instead of a number. There's a program I'm using that's sorting files like this: 1, 11, 12, 13, 2, 21, 22, 23; etc. Obviously 11 shouldn't come before 2 but this program is retarded so I have to differentiate them some other way.
How do you renumber the files. As in your example. with photos. I want it to take the DSCN(number) or DSCN(number-number) and replace with a new number. But with zeros prefix. (as windows isn't always the best at sorting without them.) So I have hundreds of photos. I want a 3 digit number. So what if the file is 3938-5 and will become 004. (because I deleted 3937-4 and so after 3936-3....z0 How do I globally replace this GUI improvements is really needed here. Prior to your video I thought this toy might be totally useless for my needs. Now I just need one more thing
Interesting video. Thanks for this presentation. Organization of multimedia data, to include video clips and audio clips has been something that has plagued my mind for a long time. Ideally I prefer to embed metadata (i.e., captions, tags, keywords, titles, etc.) directly into the media item itself. The idea here is to make searchable hundreds of thousands of media items in a both a hierarchical file/folder structure as well as random keywords that come to mind. We humans always tend to remember something about something, but can not recall everything. Being able to embed metadata future proofs us for the future by being able to eliminate developers' proprietary applications and formatting. (Here's looking at you Adobe, Apple!) As for file/folder renaming convention I try to use general-to-specific starting with dates for folders. For example: YYYY/MM/DD/filename.jpg. mp4, etc. Problem here is, evenrually I am going to accumulate a lot of 01~12 and 01~31 for dates. Maybe I should just use YYYY\MM As unique for this lifetime, and then incorporate sets of files by file names for the month? Thoughts? Thanks. BTW, trivia, you made this video on my birthday being a 'Pearl Harbor baby'. 😊 Jerry, Tokyo.
Thank you Jerry. BTW - I made a whole video about document naming convention. Please feel free to check that out if you're interested. And happy belated birthday!
say i had some text file named : _12345_(test123).txt and _54321_(test321).txt, can this software rename multiple files in the same manor so they would be named 12345 , 54321, so essentially removing the _,_,(test123).txt / _,_(test321).txt and only keeping the 2nd thru 6th character in the file name?
I have a *ton* of folders for which I'd like rename the files in them to match the folder name. Ideally I'd like to be able, for example, drop the folder(s) into a droplet or some such that will automatically rename the files to the folder name in a simple 1-2 step process. The utilities I know of require an 8-10 step process which is fine for little things but as I said my project involves literally thousands of folders and for my purposes would be way too time consuming. If anyone knows of a fix I'd very much appreciate it!
Came here trying to figure out how to turn something like "name##-##-####" into "##-##-#### name," using the initial values already in the file names. I skimmed through the video, but I don't think this had what I was looking for.
In my opinion, this is one of the worst developed UIs I have seen. Very very unintuitive. It would be so simple to have option live add this word and be done with it or remove everything before a specific letter or word. Everything with a nice and clear interface and not the confusing mess it has now. Hope it improves with time. Developers might get their heads around it. A lot of regular users, surely not. But thank you for your video. Much needed with such a bad implemented renaming solution.
@@AndyPark365 I think that for example Total Commander but there are others that aare quite more intuitive and less prone to error, specially if you use it only from time to time. With Powertoys you have to figure out how it works or go and make a quick search for a tutorial. But sometimes coders don't get that people need simplicity above all because they might not use that function every day. and that goes for every piece of software :-)
Like every single shit on Windows. They don't want to make people's life easier. That sounds like, I'm in control, and you are stupid enough to use it. Where is the fucking UI/UX guys?
Outstanding video due to the excellent, well-organized presentation. Obviously lots of thought and planning was required and thank you for that. "Subscribing" was a no-brainer.
thx for the video ~ the explaination is clear and u got very nice voice ~
this is lifesaver!! thank you sir for such an easy explanation.... very helpful
Exactly what I needed - thanks for this.
I just started using PowerRename and couldn't figure out from Microsoft's brief tutorial on how to append a description to the end of the file name, but before the extension (didn't want to add the description to the front, as I sometimes use a long description for the search index). From your example of regular expressions, I was able to figure out how to do that.
Great. Glad the video helped. Thanks for watching!
Thank you Andy. Very useful indeed. Thank you for sharing. In addition to what you did, I also modified the end of the file name. After adding the prefix e.g. 2024_09_London_(to indicate the name and date of the trip) to the original file name, I then search the word “jpg” in the first box, and then change it to “D800.jpg”. The new file name will have a prefix (date, location) , the original file name and unique number, followed by a suffix showing the camera I used ( I have several cameras). It would be nice to see or to search for photos according to date, location or name of the trip, and what camera used.
thankyou soooooooooooooooo much you helped me to save a lot of time. lots of love
Is there anyway to delete the text using the powertoy ?
For instance if you wanted to delete DSCF8392.. in all the files
thank you, very helpful. Poorly designed tool though, very confusing what the top text field on the UI is even supposed to do.
I thank you for this. As someone wrote below, Power Rename is not intuitive--helps me quite a bit.
This is all fine and dandy. But what if ALL the file names are different and you want to ad something to the beginning of each file name???????
For example, 30 songs, all different names of course. Can I ad, say, YT at the beginning of each file?
Thank you! Wery well explained😎
Thank you for the tutorial!
Hi thank you for the video, i have a question my files are always getting renamed (1) , (2) , (3) etc. ... at the end of the file name
same i need a resolution
Thanks for the video. Is it possible to capture and add the date/time the photo was taken to the name? I need to name them so they sort in the correct order.
How do you rename the original file name to your own naming conventions?
The most common renaming feature I need is to append a sequential number to each file in a folder. You do not mention this in this video. Is it possible using Power rename?
Thank You so much.🙏
What is the PowerRename does not show up in the context menu of the Windows 10? How would you fix it?
Power Rename is really great! Do you know if I can use the original file time and date and not the actual time and date like with YYYY?
Well done. Thanks
Great video! Thank you
Can I just outright just replace the whole filename with my own formatting. I have all the files with a S1E1 format but want to change that to just the Episode number.
The format is counting and therefore ever changing so it seems I can't just select the inputed files and wholly change the name to my own format.
It seems others have the same question/issue with no answer. I would think this would be a basic feature of the program, it's pretty straigtforward. Simpler than what it does now.
You would have to use the 'Use regular expressions' option. Of course, you have to know how to use these... ;) . If you click on the 'i' button next to 'search for', it gives you some help.
hey i know im replying to this after 7 months but oh well maybe there is somone else also needing this so here it is:
just write .* in the "search for" part *MAKE SURE YOU HAVE "USE REGULAR EXPRESSIONS" TURNED ON* and then just type the thing you want in the "replace with" box eg. i used "${start=1}" which gives all the files numbers going up starting from 1
hope this helps and have a nice day :D
how do you edit it so you completely replace all selected files - without the things inherent in the original files that distinguished them from eachother - so they all come out with the same name but PowerRename auto sorts them - like windows would by enumerating them - but with a letter instead of a number. There's a program I'm using that's sorting files like this: 1, 11, 12, 13, 2, 21, 22, 23; etc. Obviously 11 shouldn't come before 2 but this program is retarded so I have to differentiate them some other way.
How do you renumber the files.
As in your example. with photos.
I want it to take the DSCN(number) or DSCN(number-number) and replace with a new number. But with zeros prefix. (as windows isn't always the best at sorting without them.)
So I have hundreds of photos. I want a 3 digit number.
So what if the file is 3938-5 and will become 004. (because I deleted 3937-4 and so after 3936-3....z0
How do I globally replace this
GUI improvements is really needed here. Prior to your video I thought this toy might be totally useless for my needs.
Now I just need one more thing
very handy tool
Interesting video. Thanks for this presentation. Organization of multimedia data, to include video clips and audio clips has been something that has plagued my mind for a long time. Ideally I prefer to embed metadata (i.e., captions, tags, keywords, titles, etc.) directly into the media item itself. The idea here is to make searchable hundreds of thousands of media items in a both a hierarchical file/folder structure as well as random keywords that come to mind. We humans always tend to remember something about something, but can not recall everything. Being able to embed metadata future proofs us for the future by being able to eliminate developers' proprietary applications and formatting. (Here's looking at you Adobe, Apple!)
As for file/folder renaming convention I try to use general-to-specific starting with dates for folders. For example: YYYY/MM/DD/filename.jpg. mp4, etc. Problem here is, evenrually I am going to accumulate a lot of 01~12 and 01~31 for dates. Maybe I should just use YYYY\MM As unique for this lifetime, and then incorporate sets of files by file names for the month? Thoughts? Thanks.
BTW, trivia, you made this video on my birthday being a 'Pearl Harbor baby'. 😊 Jerry, Tokyo.
Thank you Jerry. BTW - I made a whole video about document naming convention. Please feel free to check that out if you're interested. And happy belated birthday!
how to remove numbers only from titles?
Thank you!!
Power Rename isn't as easy to use as people say it is. I wish it wasn't so complicated to use.
Thanks a lot
Great video 👍
Thanks Jorgen. Appreciate the comment!
say i had some text file named : _12345_(test123).txt and _54321_(test321).txt, can this software rename multiple files in the same manor so they would be named 12345 , 54321, so essentially removing the _,_,(test123).txt / _,_(test321).txt and only keeping the 2nd thru 6th character in the file name?
I delete by mistake the extension name, do you know how can I recover this?
where is the download link I cannot find it anyway to download
I have a *ton* of folders for which I'd like rename the files in them to match the folder name. Ideally I'd like to be able, for example, drop the folder(s) into a droplet or some such that will automatically rename the files to the folder name in a simple 1-2 step process. The utilities I know of require an 8-10 step process which is fine for little things but as I said my project involves literally thousands of folders and for my purposes would be way too time consuming. If anyone knows of a fix I'd very much appreciate it!
Thank you
Its a Beaut!!
thanks man
Thanks for sharing!
Do you have lG ?
Hi Jeffrey. I just have a personal IG, not tied to these contents.
Came here trying to figure out how to turn something like "name##-##-####" into "##-##-#### name," using the initial values already in the file names.
I skimmed through the video, but I don't think this had what I was looking for.
thanks!
Thanks a lottttttttttttttttttttttttt
I use win 11 and I don't see Power rename
Sooo if you don't have a common denominator you're stuck with renaming files one by one? What a bummer.
In my opinion, this is one of the worst developed UIs I have seen. Very very unintuitive. It would be so simple to have option live add this word and be done with it or remove everything before a specific letter or word. Everything with a nice and clear interface and not the confusing mess it has now. Hope it improves with time. Developers might get their heads around it. A lot of regular users, surely not. But thank you for your video. Much needed with such a bad implemented renaming solution.
I agree with you Cristian. Not very intuitive at all. Hope they do make improvements.
@@AndyPark365 I think that for example Total Commander but there are others that aare quite more intuitive and less prone to error, specially if you use it only from time to time. With Powertoys you have to figure out how it works or go and make a quick search for a tutorial. But sometimes coders don't get that people need simplicity above all because they might not use that function every day. and that goes for every piece of software :-)
Like every single shit on Windows. They don't want to make people's life easier. That sounds like, I'm in control, and you are stupid enough to use it. Where is the fucking UI/UX guys?
I hate Windows
Stupid tool, not user friendly. Nerd people will love it.
Thank you so much!
thanks mate