I am a Wedding photographer and after processing my images (upto 1000) I then put them in a particular order that I wish them to be viewed, When I batch rename them the order of the images is changed before they are renamed this is causing me mega problems, Please help!!!!!

Hi Kyem56 Don't know if this will help, but have you tryed using Windows rename this seems to keep them in order. 1, Select all files 2, Right click the first file 3, Rename it be YourBatchName (1) Note there a space before the first open bracket 4, All the files will be renumbered

Thank you very much for your help but I have tried all kinds of ways to do this. I have been told that this is a problem with vista...................come back XP all is forgiven. Thank you again for your help.

Hi Kyem56 I'm using Win XP Have you tryed the dir sort order command ie dir *.jpg /o +-??? It nay help to use the code below if this helps. I've Remed out the ren command for safety The dir /o options can be viewed by typing dir /? at the Dos prompt. The optios can be used like this Option Sorts /o-s By size. Largest first /odn By date. Oldest first, then by name /o-dn By date. Newest first, then by name /oen By (type (extension), then by name --------------------------------------- @echo off SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion set Count=0 for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir *.jpg /b /o d') do ( set /a Count+=1 echo ren "%%a" YouName ^(!Count!^) ) -----------------------------------------