When I try to rename a file, which is in use, the new name is lost, and I have to type it again, how to avoid this? If more than one item is selected on calling this function, the function “File → Multi rename…” is called automatically. It most definitely is an exception: Total Commander is fully high-DPI aware.After activating the main menu item “File → Rename” or the “F2” key the item (file or folder) highlighted in the active panel can be renamed. That seems to be a rare DPI scaling bug in Total Commander. Side note: if you are on a high-resolution screen, you will notice that the line with the “RegEx” checkbox in the screenshot is only partly visible. Once you are satisfied with the preview click “Start!” to perform the renaming.
As you can see below, Total Commander provides a preview of the changes. In Total Commander, select the files you want to rename, then press CTRL+M to bring up the multi-rename tool. Replace with new filenames, making use of the regex capture group variables: $2-$1 Bank statement.pdf
Search for the following regular expression, matching the source file names and capturing the month and year: Bank_statement_(\d)\.pdf The desired target format: 2016-01 Bank statement.pdf This is the format of the existing files: Bank_statement_01_2016.pdf The contents of the capture groups is placed in the variables $1 and $2 which I then used to build the new names. I defined a regex with two groups (sections in parentheses) to capture the year and month, respectively. Additionally, I wanted to replace underscores with spaces (we are in the 21st century, after all).įixing that is surprisingly simple with Total Commander’s multi-rename tool. In one case, the year and month were at the end of the name, instead of the start. Sometimes you have sets of files with all the right components already in their names but in the wrong places.
Here is how to quickly rename many files with the help of the versatile Total Commander. While I do that manually for individual files, sometimes I encounter larger numbers of files with an “incorrect” naming scheme. I prepend every document I save to disk with the year, month, and day.
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