Freename (file renamer)

Program: Freename 0.1 (file renamer)

License: Open Source/GPL

Description:

Have you ever needed to rename a bunch of files? Did you do it by hand? Or did you to hunt for a tool, only then having to specify a number of arcane rules about string substitutions and substring copying, getting it right by a lengthy process of trial-and-error?

No more! With Freename you can take a power tool already in your arsenal (your trusty text editor of choice!) and apply that to the same task.

How does it work?

When you use Freename to rename a bunch of files, it will send a text file with all filenames to your text editor.

At that point, you can use all available tools of your text editor to change the filenames into whatever you want them to be. You can edit them by hand, you can do a search-and-replace for substrings, and with the right text editors you can use regular expressions, block modifications and lots of things more.

You then close your editor, and Freename will carry change the filenames exactly into what you wrote.

Website: http://freename.sourceforge.net/

Notes: Single .exe, no .ini, must maintain the name of your configured text editor in the registry. This is version 0.1 and it is dated 4/3/2008 so it does not appear to be an active project. Borland Delphi needed to build from source code. Makes changes to filenames, so may run into trouble with UAC depending on the location of files to be renamed.

Other notes: Quite nice implementation. It serves a unique niche that isn't covered by any other program.