Multi Rename Tool: Need how to work with guideline/tutorial

[tauroman]

Mass Renaming in Total Commander 8.01

Can someone give me a comprehensive tutorial on Mass-Renaming from Total Commander 8.0.
I need to know, how do i use the mass renaming tool.
I know it opens after pressing the Ctrl+M.
I can't go forward.

[karlchen]

Hello, Tauroman,

find the explanation for the multi-rename-tool this way: open it by pressing Ctrl+M inside Total Commander 8. Next press <F1> and read the ondisk helpfile sections about the multi-rename-tool.

Kind regards,
Karl

[tauroman]

Hello karlchen: m doing that, but its really intimidating.

[karlchen]

Hello, tauroman.

Perhaps the corrsponding Total Commander Wiki webpage will be more to your liking: Multi-rename tool

The rest is trial and error.
As the multi-rename tool has got a preview function, no change happens before you click the [Start!] button, experimenting should not be too dangerous.
The less so if you run your trials on testing files, instead of making real data files your guinea pigs.

Cheers,
Karl

[tauroman]

Hello, tauroman.

Perhaps the corrsponding Total Commander Wiki webpage will be more to your liking: Multi-rename tool

The rest is trial and error.
As the multi-rename tool has got a preview function, no change happens before you click the [Start!] button, experimenting should not be too dangerous.
The less so if you run your trials on testing files, instead of making real data files your guinea pigs.

Cheers,
Karl

Hello, i searched and found one blog about renaming Total Commander with some pictures.
http://www.worldstart.com/renaming-multiple-files-with-total-commander/
If i may ask if you too could post some tutorial like renaming files Image: https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/230x101q90/823/jay9.png, a two step for :-

1)To remove those name beginning with number.
2)Add spaces in them.

Sorry for late reply.

[meisl]

tauroman, what's the problem with the existing tutorials?

But ok, let's go through your example. Here are the file names again, as text:

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01 Safe and Sound.mp3
01 Wake Me Up.mp3
02 You Make Me.mp3
04 OneRepublic  Counting Stars.mp3

1)To remove those name beginning with number.

That's unclear. Do you want to remove the numbers from the names?

2)Add spaces in them.

Unclear as well. Where exactly do you want to have spaces added?
Or maybe you also want to remove some spaces? (see last file name, which contains two consecutive spaces)

[karlchen]

Hello, tauroman.

Sample names to be changed by MRT (multi-rename tool): 4 filenames

First task:

1)To remove those name beginning with number.

Steps:

1. Mark the filenames.
2. Open MRT by pressing <Ctrl>M.
3. The "Rename mask: filename" will initially read [N]. Means filename without extension.
4. You want to remove the numbers at the beginning including the blank after each number. - Correct?
5. In the sample filenames which we see all numbers have got two digits, plus a blank, makes 3. So we want to preserve the filenames as they are starting with their 4th character.
6. Change the [N] to read [N4-]. Means: start with the 4th character and up to the end of the filename.
   Should do the trick.

Second task:

2)Add spaces in them.

Sorry, I do not understand. All the filenames have got spaces between the words.
So you will have to explain more clearly where additional spaces should be inserted.

Kind regards,
Karl

[tauroman]

Hello, tauroman.
First task:

1)To remove those name beginning with number.

Steps:

1. Mark the filenames.
2. Open MRT by pressing <Ctrl>M.
3. The "Rename mask: filename" will initially read [N]. Means filename without extension.
4. You want to remove the numbers at the beginning including the blank after each number. - Correct?
5. In the sample filenames which we see all numbers have got two digits, plus a blank, makes 3. So we want to preserve the filenames as they are starting with their 4th character.
6. Change the [N] to read [N4-]. Means: start with the 4th character and up to the end of the filename.
   Should do the trick.

Second task:

2)Add spaces in them.

Sorry, I do not understand. All the filenames have got spaces between the words.
So you will have to explain more clearly where additional spaces should be inserted.

Yeah exactly what i meant in First Task. I followed it, and it was the right way. Please pardon, my rudimentary writing.

The Second Task, was to insert a space after every word in a sentence , like : "01 Safe and Sound.mp3" here i wanted "Safe and Sound.mp3"
It was a stupid one. But really what if a file name was "SafeandSound.mp3" and i want it to look like this "Safe and Sound.mp3"

hmm, its very complex, i can't fathom all those details by any novice or a beginner users. This thing is very much for professional and experts.
I have my reasons to use it, i.e., "light, easy".
Any suggestion abou the space.

[tauroman]

I don't want to be spoon fed regarding this . But renaming and copy/move/paste and sometimes continued learning of TC, is what i do these days.
Its really handicapping, when their is no tut , no images and video for the novice to follow, so asking someone is all i could do.

Again, could someone explain how do i give spaces for a file having no spaces. Eg:-
01SafeandSound.mp3 to Safe and Sound.mp3

Any small amount of direction is welcomed. I think if i get to master some feature of TC, i am thinking of posting one tutorial on youtube.
lol

[MVV]

I don't think that it is possible for a program to insert spaces in all places where you expect to see them. How should TC know that "and" in your case is a separate word and must be surrounded with spaces? It is possible to insert spaces e.g. before all capital letters but not in such case where there is no way to detect words.

[tauroman]

hmm,yeah i agree with you. Thank you for summing that up, i need to use more and read more, for this to work.
Even if it can't the way i want , i still can perform some decent renaming from TC, and leave the tougher ones to B.R.U (Bulk Renaming Utility).
Thank you for keeping an open mind.
My statisfied with my Query

[damjang]

I don't know if this can help, but if you have to rename mp3 files that have correctly spaced/named tags it is better to rename the files eg. with texts from this tags...

[Aezay]

Again, could someone explain how do i give spaces for a file having no spaces. Eg:-
01SafeandSound.mp3 to Safe and Sound.mp3

This is a tricky thing to do, but it is possible using RegEx, or regular expressions, as they are called. RegEx is may appear very intimidating when you first see it, but the power they give you are amazing. RegEx are actually used in many different programs, so learning it might help you elsewhere too.

Here is an example of RegEx which looks for uppercase characters, which does not have a white space character just before it. This means that a filename such as TheBestSongEver.mp3 will be renamed intoThe Best Song Ever.mp3. With my RegEx example, the limitation is that it will not work if the file was named thebestsongever.mp3.

(?-i)([^\s]?)([A-Z])

(?-i) - This is an option, it enabled case sensitivity.
([^\s]?) - This matches any non-whitespace character.
([A-Z]) - This will match ONE uppercase character.

When a match is made, and the match is encapsulated within parenthesis, you can use it in the "Replace with" field. In our example above, two captures are made. The first one doesn't not count, it is just an option. To use them, put "$1 $2" in the replace field.

The Total Commander help file does have a section on RegEx, but you can also read more about it on Wikipedia.

[meisl]

Its really handicapping, when their is no tut , no images and video for the novice to follow, so asking someone is all i could do.

Come on, there are tutorials. You pointed out some yourself.
The problem with tutorials, of course, is that one has to actually read them...