In reply to "GreatfulLurker" who wrote the following:
> >
> > If you want to rename the files in a folder you can use Irfan. You can
> > also try to change an other way. You select all the files in the folder
> > and change the name of the first file. When you enter the other files
> > get the same name with a number behind it. Try with 4 or 5 file in a
> > folder and make som trials.
> >
> > Success Jos
> >
> I understand that process easily enough. But it still requires me to manually
> enter a new name for each folder/set. Of which there are WAY too many. I'm
> wishing for a lazy way to have a program see "21092002" and know to change it
> to "20020921" automatically. Something like "move the last 4 digits to the
> beginning, move these two to the end, leave the middle two as is. I'm sure a
> beginner coding student could write something like that. I'm too old to learn
> new tricks. Thanks for the suggestion, though :)
> Greatful Lurker
Google for BULK RENAME UTILITY which can do what you want.
Section 6 - Move/Copy Parts (6) - will move parts of the name around.
You probably have to do it in 2 passes e.g. for 21092002
Pass 1 - Move first 2 characters to position 3 - 09212002
Pass 2 - Move first 4 characters to position 5 - 20020921
it works and it's free!
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