Only the names have been changed ...

There are literally hundreds of 'file renamer' tools out there. I've been personally using Magic File Renamer for years. Most of the time, though, what I really need to do is rename the stupid worthlessly named images from my camera to something a little more revealing. I mean ... IMG_001.JPG isn't very useful in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps you've deleted a few items in a sequence so now you have IMG_001-IMG_100, but IMG_045 and IMG_058 are missing now. Maybe you just want to rename them to be IN sequence. There are tons of reasons why you might want to rename tons of files.

In my scenario, renaming camera images, I'd like to rename the images from IMG_xxx.JPG to RANCH_yyy.JPG where the new files are positively numbered sequentially.

The old Dopus (heck even from a DOS prompt) you can do some nice tricks. For example, you could rename img_xxx.jpg to ranch_xxx.jpg from a DOS prompt with:

c:\>rename img_*.jpg ranch_*.jpg

That's fine - but your stuck with the original numbering. Dopus in SIMPLE mode can do this sort of renaming (even V6 did that).

Many of you out there may know about the power of Regular Expressions (RegEx) and how useful it is in searching text for matches. Many renamer tools allows you to use RegEx to do your renaming (VERY powerful!) but even RegEx can't help you sequentially order your images. Dopus allows for this too.

But Dopus v8 goes a step further and gives you an actual tool for renaming. Now, let's be honest - its not as powerful as a dedicated tool. But its damn likely to get most of your trivial renaming done. In the image below, I'm going to rename some generic named images to something that makes sense - and, when I do it, I'm going to number them sequentially, starting with 1 and with a single digit increment.

The preview mode shows you exactly what you're going to get. There are find and replace features as well. Like I said - chances are likely, you'll be able to do most of your renaming with this guy. If you are RegEx person, you will be tickled to death.

Sometimes, the power of Dopus isn't initially visible until you dig a little. These are little things of course. But together, in a place where they make SENSE (a file manager) they really add some value.

Let's move on to the next handy tool ...