Dos script rename all files

Mark Wilkins Mark Wilkins There are two problems, Only one file has been renamed, and if the file names contain spaces, the batch can't rename any file — JustMe.

It is not clear, though, why only one file would be processed. It may well be due to a different DOS version. Andriy: Thanks. That's cleaner; I made that change. I didn't realize that worked some day I will learn to read documentation MarkWilkins, hey this works great but how do you keep the original name?

Show 1 more comment. Patrick Patrick Anthony Miller Anthony Miller Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Note: Make sure you keep the quotes in every instance you see them. They need to remain in the folder path and the replace section. To edit the VBS file to change the location of the files to rename, or to adjust what to replace in the files, just right-click the VBS file like you see above, but instead of opening it, choose Edit.

This method is unique compared to the script above because it works even if the files have completely different filenames. In other words, these two methods have completely different use cases. You want to keep all the characters untouched but make the word house into home. The script is great for that. However, if the files are all named random characters and you want them to be really similar like housepics , you can use the Windows 10 renaming function to rename the first to housepics 1 , the second to housepics 2 , the third to housepics 3 , and so on.

Step 2 : Press the F2 key or right-click one of the selected files and choose Rename. Step 3 : Type the filename you want to use and then press Enter.

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