Renaming a large number of files

[puternut]

I have a large number of files (3000+) in a single folder.

The format for naming them is in two different 'styles'.

One way is 'Project - Results.ext'. The other is 'Results - Project.ext'. There is always a hyphen seperating the terms.

Does anyone know of a simple way to rename either set (not a problem to put the 2 sets in seperate folders) so that they only use one 'style'???

The only other way would be to do them manually 8-(

Help appreciated

Running Win 7

[ABerrant]

Plenty of batch renaming software is available (free & otherwise).

http://en.wikipedia.o...tch_renaming_software

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=file+renamer

[Old_Geezer]

I've used this one with success in trhe past

http://www.finebytes.com/mfr/overview.asp

That said, copy the directory listing into a '.bat' file, and use a decent text editor with 'global replace' and 'macro' facilities, and it's not too difficult to create a batch file that will do the job.

[puternut]

Thanks guys - I had a look and was not really convinced.

What I might do is produce a .txt file of the files and the mess about in Excel or something then rename the files on a list basis.

Thanks again