Batch Rename Files in Windows using PowerRename (PowerToys) 

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.

I really like PowerRename. I use it to change the names of photos to some simple names with ordering prefixes. For other data (event, date, people, descriptive commentaries), I use the various properties of the files. We can select many files and include in each of them the same data in various properties by typing the desired information in each properties. Then, we can use the Explorer windows to search, find or selected particular files with the search field. We can also open a column for each relevant property (several dozens) and visually inspect them one by one, from A to Z.

Great video! Thank you

Thank you! Wery well explained😎

Thank you for the tutorial!

thx for the video ~ the explaination is clear and u got very nice voice ~

Thank you!!

Great video 👍

thankyou soooooooooooooooo much you helped me to save a lot of time. lots of love

Well done. Thanks

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.

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Thank You so much.🙏

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?

thanks mate

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 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

thanks man

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

thanks!

What is the PowerRename does not show up in the context menu of the Windows 10? How would you fix it?

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

I thank you for this. As someone wrote below, Power Rename is not intuitive--helps me quite a bit.

very handy tool

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?

I delete by mistake the extension name, do you know how can I recover this?

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?

where is the download link I cannot find it anyway to download

how to remove numbers only from titles?

Thanks for sharing! Do you have lG ?

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.

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.

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.

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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!

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.

Stupid tool, not user friendly. Nerd people will love it.

I hate Windows

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?