okay, I wasn't sure where to put this question but I guess general chat should be the place. I'm trying to find a mass renaming software that will rename by the order that I place it in manually... most of the renaming software that I've tried only allows me to rename them by name or whatever but I want them to be named in the order that I put them in. I've only been able to come up with one solution but it doesn't work 100%: so I used window's explorer's select all > file > rename function, which automatically renames the files in the order I put them in. however, windows puts parenthesized numbers: file file (1) file (2) file (3) file (4) file (5) file (6) file (7) file (8) file (9) file (10) file (11) Code (markup): I think you can spot the problem I'm having when I open up the mass rename program to get rid of the parenthesis, it only lets me go by name, so the order will be like this and messes up the order: file (1) file (10) file (11) file (2) file (3) file (4) and so on... Code (markup): so my question is: does anyone know of any program that will let me rename by the order I place them in? thanks, much love.
I use Excel to create large scripts like that ... in the first column put the original name, 2nd column put the target name, then in the 3rd column write a little "move " command to rename them
yeah, that was what I was thinking of too, just adding zero's in front of single digit numbers by hand. but I was hoping someone would know of a rename program that recognizes these single numbers automatically. oh, well.