Patricia,

I often rename large groups of files using a .bat file, and long files names
are supported in Win2000's "version" of DOS.  I use Excel to create the
sequence of commands (DOS rename in this case), in particular the
"concatenate" function.  Concatenate allows differing cells within Excel to
be combined into a string.  Copy and "paste-special > values" back into an
empty area of the excel spreadsheet.  Copy the values from excel and paste
to a text editor, notepad for example.  Save the notepad window as
"something.bat" in the directory of a duplicate set of images.  From DOS,
run the "something.bat" file to rename the images.

This should do the trick...it worked on a dummy set of data created to
simulate your situation.  Duplicate your images to a temporary directory and
run the bat file on the dupes...just to be safe.

Here are links to the spreadsheet and resulting bat file.

http://philware.mystarband.net/imagesrename.xls

http://philware.mystarband.net/imgren.bat

Good luck,
Phil Ware



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From: "Patti Davis-Perkins" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:31 AM
Subject: renaming files using DOS


>
> I have a series of image files IMG0001.jpg - IMG0100.jpg that I need to
> rename 0197-3302-4230-001.base.jpg - 0197-3302-4230-100.base.jpg.  Does
> anyone know how/if I can do this in DOS under WINDOWS 2000?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Patricia Davis-Perkins
> Canadian Museum of Civilization
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