RenamerFairy Beta

A mass file renaming tool with interactive UI for windows.

Features

• Easy to add files - right click or drag files from anything
• Directly edit text using block editing mode, aligned to the beginning or end of the file name
• Full Undo history
• Full Regular Expression support, with interactive help courtesy of Regex Workbench
• Number your files
• Clipboard support and clipboard block-text features
• Find & Replace

Downloads

• Installer (setup.exe)
• ClickOnce Installation (requires Windows Installer 3.1)
• Click here for an old version [not compatible with Vista / Win7]

The Windows Shell Extension is NOT enabled by default. After installation launch the program and go to Settings to enable the Shell Extension. You will then be able to add files to RenamerFairy by right clicking them in any application.

Screenshots

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User Guide

The application will automatically stay updated by default, options are in the Settings window of the application.

Launching RenamerFairy

The Windows Shell Extension is NOT enabled by default. After installation launch the program and go to Settings to enable the Shell Extension. You will then be able to add files to RenamerFairy by right clicking them in any application.

To launch the application, either:

• Right click some files and choose "RenamerFairy" in anything that supports standard windows context menus
• Run "RenamerFairy" from the start menu

You can drag and drop files onto an existing window to add them to the list. You can also right click further files and select a RenamerFairy window to add them to.

TIP: An easy way to add lots of individual files from many different folders is to do a search for the files (e.g. using Explorer) and selecting all the files at once there.

Renaming Files

Using the tabs at the bottom of the RenamerFairy window you can select a tool to operate on your file names. You can Undo any action by pressing Ctrl+Z or by viewing the Undo History.

No changes are made to any of the file names until you click "Apply". Clicking "Apply" will rename any file that has not been un-checked. If the rename is successful the file name will be removed from the list. Once all files have been removed, the window will automatically close.

TIP: Using your ingenuity you can successively use "Apply" and the checkboxes to work on groups of files that have a similar, but not exactly the same, name format.

Edit Text Tool

Click one of the file names to select it. Each time you type, move the cursor or make selections with the keyboard or mouse, the same operations will be applied to each of the other files in the list as well.

• All the standard keys work including Backspace, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V etc.
• If a file's checkbox is not checked then the current operation will not apply to it.
• You can use the mouse to select text but by far the quickest way is using the standard keyboard shortcuts
  • Hold Shift to select text by pressing the Left and Right cursor keys
  • Hold Ctrl and use the cursor keys to skip between words instead of individual letters
  • Combine the two to easily select segments of a file name

By default, the file names are aligned to the left so all text operations happen relative to the start of the file names. To operate relative to the end of the names you can switch to "Right Align" mode.

• In "Left Align" mode, the position of the cursor for each file is decided by the distance from the start of the names.
• In "Right Align" mode it is from the end.
• You can use the right click menu to switch alignments, but it is usually quicker to use the keyboard
  • Switch to "Right Align" mode by moving the cursor to the End of the name and then pressing Right.
  • Pressing Home and then Left will switch back to "Left Align" mode.

Sequence Tool

The sequence tool can be used to number files.

• Configure the sequence start number, format and increment
• Position the sequence in the file names using the mouse or keyboard
• Change the order of the file names by clicking the column headings, right clicking gives more search options
• When you press the "Apply" button the changes will be made to the names in the file list

Find & Replace Tool

You can use find and replace to edit the file names, you will see a preview of how the file names will look. Click "Apply" to make the changes stick before going to the next tool.

Regular Expressions Tool

You can use regular expressions to edit the file names - this works just as the Find & Replace tool does.

If "Hover Interpret" is enabled, hover your mouse over elements of your regexp to see how it is being interpreted.

Future Stuff

Known Bugs

• Sometimes when quitting with no changes the application might ask about unsaved changes. This will actually happen all of the time.

To Do (in order)

• Internal drag & drop to reorder the list to a custom order
• "Remove-Files-From-List" options
• Show "align-right" / "align-left" in context menus for the Sequence and Replace plugins
• "Do this for all files" option / dialog when adding groups of folders
• Turn plugin textboxes into comboboxes that remember previous entries
• Speed improvements for large lists
• UAC support for renaming protected files
• Save a rename-back backup batch file?
• Edit Path function (not just filenames)?

Future Plugins?

• Release source project to make custom 3rd party plugins
• MP3 ID3 renaming plugin?
• Image Attribute plugin?