Renames Files

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I collect pictures of plants and have thousands of them. If I find several
interesting ones on the internet I download them to my desktop, then sometime
move them to my sorted groups of pictures. They might have names like Rosa
palustris.jpg. If there already is a different picture of that species I wish
to keep both. Windows warns me that there is a picture of that name and do I
want to replace it. I say no, and then rename the new picture Rosa
palustris2.jpg. The problem is: About half the time when I move the curser to
the new picture to rename it, suddenly XP renames it some completely
different species plus a (2) or other number. Many times by then I can't
recall the real species name. It picks up the name from some plant in the
sorted file, for no reason I can think of. Any solution to this.
 
centerline said:
I collect pictures of plants and have thousands of them. If I find
several interesting ones on the internet I download them to my
desktop, then sometime move them to my sorted groups of pictures.
They might have names like Rosa palustris.jpg. If there already is a
different picture of that species I wish to keep both. Windows warns
me that there is a picture of that name and do I want to replace it.
I say no, and then rename the new picture Rosa palustris2.jpg. The
problem is: About half the time when I move the curser to the new
picture to rename it, suddenly XP renames it some completely
different species plus a (2) or other number. Many times by then I
can't recall the real species name. It picks up the name from some
plant in the sorted file, for no reason I can think of. Any solution
to this.
Click to expand...

Get the cursor out of the pane with the file names immediately. If it
pauses over a file it will choose that name.
Or else turn off Single Click.

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An excellent program, and it's free, for batch renames with or without
retaining the original file is Irfanview. Read through the options on
File>batch conversion>etc. It is excellent, free, highly respected, and
available at www.irfanview.com It has become my viewer of choice.

Chet
 
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