A bulk file renamer you can read at a glance
A typical bulk file renamer stacks a dozen panels of options on one screen, and when its search box reads patterns, a name containing (1) or a dot can do something you did not ask for. Renamify takes the opposite approach. There is a single Rule menu in the command bar, the boxes beside it change to suit the rule you picked, and the rest of the window is the list of your files.
Each row shows the current name and, next to it, the name it is about to get. That column updates on every keystroke. If a new name would clash with another, contain a character Windows refuses, end in a dot or come out empty, the row says so before you commit to anything.
When the list looks right, press Rename. The queue then carries the files under their new names, so a second job, such as numbering them after cleaning them up, is just a different rule and another press.
How to remove text from file names in bulk
This is the job that sends most people searching: camera exports full of IMG_, downloads ending in (1), drafts tagged _final_FINAL.
- Drop the files on the window, or click Add folder to bring in everything in one folder.
- Set Rule to Remove text.
- Type the unwanted piece in the Remove box. Tick Match case only if capitals matter.
- Read down the new-name column, then press Rename.
Find and replace in file names, add a prefix, change case
Replace text has a Find box and a Replace with box. The search is literal, so brackets, dots and plus signs mean exactly themselves. Every occurrence in the name is swapped.
Add text puts a word at the start or at the end, with no space added for you, which is how you restore a prefix like IMG_ or tack on a client code. Change case offers UPPER CASE, lower case, Title Case and Sentence case, useful when a batch arrives in shouting capitals or mixed styles.
None of the rules touch the extension. Everything after the last dot is set aside and put back afterward, so a .jpg stays a .jpg.
Number files in sequence or stamp them with their dates
Make sequential has a Base name, Start at, Digits, Joined by and Where. Leave Base name empty to keep each file's name and add a counter, or type one, for example Kitchen, to replace the old names with Kitchen - 001, Kitchen - 002 and so on, in the order the list shows.
Add the file's date reads each file's own date modified or date created, rather than today's date, and writes it in the format you pick from the menu. That makes a folder sort by when things happened rather than by whatever the camera or scanner called them.
