Renaming multiple files

If you have a digital camera or a camcorder, you have probably noticed that when you import your digital images or movies to your computer, more often than not the importing software chooses not very descriptive names for the files, for example:

Would not it be beter to give your digital images the names of your choosing, like Thanksgiving dinner of 2007 - 1.JPG, Thanksgiving dinner of 2007 - 2.JPG, and so on, that better describe what the images are all about?

With AB Commander, you can use the Rename command to quickly rename many files in one step, giving them more descriptive names that make sense to you rather than to your digital camera software.

To do that, first use AB Commander to navigate to the folder when you have improted the digital images or movies, and select the files that belong to the same event. (Remember that you can use the Image Preview command of AB Commander to see the images without starting your digital imaging software.) For example, if you want to rename the images that you took during the Thanksgiving dinner of 2007, select the image files that you took during that event, choose the Rename command, and specify how you want the files to be renamed in the To area:

Note the # symbol at the end of the file name in the To area: you can use it as a placeholder for the image number: when renaming the selected files, AB Commander will replace the # symbol with a number, starting with the one you've specified, incrementing it automatically when renaming the next file. (Of course, for this to work, the Replace # symbol(s) with auto-incrementing number option must be selected.)