recursive renaming?

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recursive renaming?

Postby elnino » Wed Mar 05, 2025 3:00 pm

Been loving this program - well done!

2 questions -

I've done a search on this forum, and I can't find anything on recursive or recursion. I'd like to prepend all my photo's filenames with the taken date. and I want to do this thru all my folders. I understand I can use favorites, but I'd rather not, I have 25 years worth of photos.

And... how to I move the .bru default folder, I don't want it under documents.

I do not have the commercial, so scripting is not an option
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Re: recursive renaming?

Postby TheGhost78 » Wed Mar 05, 2025 3:59 pm

Renaming Options > ID3 / EXIF Data / File Properties > tick Extract Exif Data (Photos)

Auto Date (8):

Mode: Prefix
Type: Taken (Original) - not every file will always have this field, so you may need to try Taken (Digitized) if a TIFF file, for example.
Fmt: YMD HMS, or maybe a custom format like %Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S - where you'll need to include a separator after %S
Sep: space / space dash space / whatever you like - doesn't apply if you use a custom format in Fmt.

Filters (12):

Tick Files and Subfolders; untick Folders

N.B. Reading the Exif data will be slow, so don't select too many files in one go.
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