A few weeks ago Linda Benedict who writes the Alone in the Archives blog mentioned a freeware program called Renamer, which allows you to rename files. This came in really handy for us recently because we made some minor changes to our file numbering system for the images we've scanned.
The thought of going through hundreds of files to add an accession number to the beginning of the file name or of going through thousands of files to change dots to dashes was daunting to say the least.
With Renamer you define the rule, for example 'replace' dots with dashes and in seconds it has changed 2500 files. This may sound like a petty concern, but the files sort differently with dots and dashes and it gets really hard to find things you know should be there.
Adding an accession number to all files in a folder was just as easy. Tauheeda, the student who was going to have to rename all the files was ecstatic.
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