posted on February 28, 2007 10:33:36 AM
Hello, My problem is this. I sell sportscards on Ebay and Iam looking for batch rename software that you can manipulate the step value lower than 1. The problem is that when I do say 100 items, I scan the front and back of the card. So, in turn I have 200 image files. When I rename those files....feb28100 and so on, it throws off my numbering system per card. Example file feb28104 is still card #2 that Iam selling. I need a rename software that will allow me to rename with a step value of .5. So that when I rename the batch, it will say feb28100, feb28100.5, feb281001 etc... so they images will stay in line for easier attachment when creating my auctions. I hope I wasnt too confusing with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as this is hindering my ideas tremendously. Thank you , John.
posted on February 28, 2007 12:44:26 PM
Oops- just tried it and it doesn't work. I also scan front and backs. First I scan the fronts, naming them 07feb2801, 07feb2802, 07feb2803, etc. I make a new folder and scan the backs to the new folder in the same order, giving the identical name I gave to their front. Then I batch rename the backs, appending a 'b' to the file name, placing the renamed files in the same directory as the fronts. The backs alphabetically come right after the front of the card.
[ edited by pixiamom on Feb 28, 2007 12:45 PM ]
posted on February 28, 2007 01:29:49 PM
Wouldn't it be easier to name them as feb28100f and feb28100b instead of feb28100 and feb28100.5? Also if you are using Windows then the .5 extension might throw off some poorly-written software packages and they might not recognize them as graphics?
I routinely do massive renaming of bulk files under Mac OS X using a few AppleScripts I wrote or via FileBuddy - a file utility. There is a similar product called Better File Rename for Windows, or you could use AWK or a perl script to do the same (if you know the language).
posted on February 28, 2007 01:55:00 PM
I batch scan from Irfanview. Irfan views automatically saves and names the files, I use the date as my prefix, specify how many digits I want to follow, and the increment amount. Irfanview does the rest. I have to batch rename to add the 'b' to the file name, I use the name pattern $Nb
