File Renamer for Windows

User Reviews

• Doesn't work with Windows 10

  skaizun9/29/2016

  Pros

  It worked great with Windows Vista.

  Cons

  Can't get it to show the files in a given directory, even with "*.*" (i.e., all files) as the name filter. I even tried changing the compatability mode to Win 95, Win XP, and Win Vista, all to no avail.

  Summary

  If you have Win 10, don't bother. The company has not made any updates, and its website no longer exists.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Sep 29, 2016<p/>This review was meant for a similarly named 'File Renamer' download. This one works. I have notified Download.com. As soon as they have removed this erroneous one, I'll add a positive one. Apologies and thanks for understanding.

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• Simple, powerful utility

  Perponcnet9/28/2011

  Pros

  Slick, doesn't use many resources, yet powerful; nothing extraneous

  Cons

  No significant ones; not sure why CNET's editor had difficulties.

  Summary

  Slick, efficient, powerful; represents the best of freeware.

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• Works Great!

  lsippell11/12/2010

  Pros

  Been using it for years and it does just what you ask it to.

  Cons

  Occasionally their are some files in a directory it won't rename and it must be shut down and restarted

  Summary

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• Justo lo que buscaba para una solución rápida.

  marcelorum8/27/2010

  Pros

  Tiene completas opciones para lograr soluciones. Simple de usar.

  Cons

  Se necesitan ciertos conocimientos para poder utilizarlo rápidamente.

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• Works very well in expert mode but not too easy to use

  pbrooker12/26/2009

  Pros

  Very flexible in sorting the file order and editing file names. Works effectively and quickly and you can undo any changes.

  Cons

  The interface is difficult to learn and it's important to record the way to handle a particular task once you have worked it out because you won't remember next time.

  Summary

  The product works well once you know how to set it up. As an example I use Nero Express to record audio &#38; MP3 CDs and Nero usually changes the track order. Rename will handle this and it can be set up as follows :Use Expert Mode. Sort by Date and Time with Oldest First. Open music file folder by working down from the top left. Tick Insert, next field down $, Pos 1, fill up with 1, Start 201, step 1, Kill letters start with a minus number so you can work from the last letter. Typical track title will be 226Album Title.mp3. I start at 201 because Nero regards 1, 11, etc as the same when sorting.

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• Very useful

  harishharidas12/21/2009

  Pros

  Very Lightweight, does the job perfectly well. Saved me hours of renaming 100's of files.

  Cons

  A little hard to use at first.

  Summary

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• Did exactly what I wanted in no time at all w/o install

  annetroy019/1/2009

  Pros

  I liked that I did not have to install this product, I was able to rename all the files I wanted within about 2 minutes.

  Cons

  I don't have any cons.

  Summary

  I needed to standardize the naming of about 175 files from 4 different sources. I was able to add words to the end of all files. I was then able to remove the same word from the end of files that now had the word twice, and from the file names that had another word that meant I didn't want the new word added at all. I was able to remove spaces and underscores; and capitalize the first letter of every word in the file names. The interface was perfect for what I needed to do. Thanks to the creator for making this free. I generally result to an Excel macro, but I trust CNET for virus-free downloads.

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• DONT DOWNLOAD THIS SOFTWARE!

  roboranx4/6/2009

  Pros

  No Pros. Cluttered unfriendly interface.

  Cons

  This software successfully deleted about 100 of my files.

  Summary

  This software successfully deleted about 100 of my files. There is an undo, the "feature" was grayed out after the operation, so no rescue there! Absolutely Horrible! All I did was say trim x amount of chars from the start of the filename and it deleted all of the files. I am still in shock...DONT DOWNLOAD IT!

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• What I was looking for !!

  rockhead693/6/2009

  Pros

  Simple, small, free and does the job accuratelly and thoroughly. You just can't go wrong. Exactly what I needed. As far as help, I actually didn't need any. This Soft was realy easy to figure out.

  Cons

  None whatsoever.

  Summary

  Just GREAT !

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• No help for the novice.

  CharleyGarrett2/25/2009

  Pros

  It was pretty small, and looked very efficient, just you need to know how to use it, but with no help available....

  Cons

  I really couldn't get it to work. In Vista, be sure to run it as administrator, since it will try to write to an *.ini file, and you'll have to *KILL* it to restart it as an administrator. I couldn't exit gracefully.

  Summary

  Wait for the help to work too.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Feb 25, 2009<p/>I tried to contact the author, who apparently still accepts donations for the freeware, but his email address was rejected. Too bad. It seems like a good starting point.

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