Mass Renaming in Windows Explorer

[abcdefGARY]

okay, I wasn't sure where to put this question but I guess here should be the place.

I'm trying to find a mass renaming software that will rename by the order that I place it in manually... most of the renaming software that I've tried only allows me to rename them by name or whatever but I want them to be named in the order that I put them in.

I've only been able to come up with one solution but it doesn't work 100%:
so I used window's explorer's select all > file > rename function, which automatically renames the files in the order I put them in. however, windows puts parenthesized numbers:


file
file (1)
file (2)
file (3)
file (4)
file (5)
file (6)
file (7)
file (8)
file (9)
file (10)
file (11)

I think you can spot the problem I'm having when I open up the mass rename program to get rid of the parenthesis, it only lets me go by name, so the order will be like this and messes up the order:


file (1)
file (10)
file (11)
file (2)
file (3)
file (4)
and so on...

so my question is: does anyone know of any program that will let me rename by the order I place them in, rather than by name?

thanks

[djr33]

Interesting.

The two solutions off the top of my head are:
1. Use a .bat (batch) file. How? No clue :p But other people on the board do know how.
2. Upload to your webserver and use PHP, ASP or another server side script play with them. In doing so, you gain access to controls that are meant to do just that. But... this is innefficient if you can find a local way.

I'm sure there's something you can do.

[abcdefGARY]

Interesting.

The two solutions off the top of my head are:
1. Use a .bat (batch) file. How? No clue :p But other people on the board do know how.
2. Upload to your webserver and use PHP, ASP or another server side script play with them. In doing so, you gain access to controls that are meant to do just that. But... this is innefficient if you can find a local way.

I'm sure there's something you can do.woah. overwhelming. I wish someone would know of a simple renaming program that recognizes single digit numbers... but like you said, the methods you gave me are kinda inefficient. there must be a better way to do this.

[djr33]

It would be possible to write this in PHP and it could convert the single digit numbers.

However, the real problem is how you select the 'order'.

If you just want 10 files, then just do it by hand and be done with it. If it's 1,000, then it's probably worth pursuing.

[codeexploiter]

I haven't used the following tool (http://sourceforge.net/projects/batren) but it claims that does what you want.

It is an open source tool and free.