Auto rename file when dragging into folder with file of same name?

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Is there anyway of making XP automatically rename a file (adding (1),(2)
at the end, for example) when dragging a file to a folder where there's
a file of the same name?

When I drag a file (XP Pro) into a folder with a file of the same name,
XP asks me if I want to overwrite the file or not.

Often I want to have BOTH files in the folder and the lack of 'rename'
option is really irritating!

Thanks :)
 
The only way I know would be command line.

example 2 files named file.txt.

copy c:\file.txt c:\dupdir\file1.txt

You can use wild card characters to do bulk operations. * is always tricky
in the results it xt yields, so I would reccomend having all you filenames
the same length (which didn't used to be an issue in the 8.3 days ) and use
the ? character as a single character wild card.

so :
copy c:\*.txt c:\dupdir\????1.???

would copy all txt files and rename using the first four letters of their
name plus a 1 plus their three character extension.

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Is there anyway of making XP automatically rename a file (adding (1),(2)
at the end, for example) when dragging a file to a folder where there's
a file of the same name?

When I drag a file (XP Pro) into a folder with a file of the same name,
XP asks me if I want to overwrite the file or not.

Often I want to have BOTH files in the folder and the lack of 'rename'
option is really irritating!

Thanks :)
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I use a a freebie program called Picsizer. As the name
suggests you can also use it to size pictures by batch,
but it also has the ability to rename files in batches.
http://www.axiomx.com/picsizer.htm

gls858
 
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