Hi all, this is prob very basic for you guys, erm i have a folder with about 4000 pictures, and they are randomly named A1(0) A1(1) etc i want to name them all 001, 002, 003, 004 ect, keep in mind there are Jpgs and Bmp files, any ideas where to start please? I should google this but i thought if someone could provide some code it will one be easier (lol) and two i can attempt to modify it for some other stuff i want to do. thanks,

@echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion :main for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/a-d') do ( set /a N+=1 call :sub1 echo ren %%a !S!%%~Xa ) goto :eof :sub1 set S=!N! :pad if !S:~4^,1!'==' set S=0!S!& goto :pad goto :eof ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

if you can use Python on your system, you can use the script here . actual usage: C:\test>dir /B A* A1(0) A1(1) A1(2) A1(3) To show a listing of files to be renamed, use -l C:\test>filerenamer.py -s "A1\(.*\)" -e "001:999" -l "A*" To be renamed or deleted): [ C:\test\A1(0) ] to [ C:\test\001 ] To be renamed or deleted): [ C:\test\A1(1) ] to [ C:\test\002 ] To be renamed or deleted): [ C:\test\A1(2) ] to [ C:\test\003 ] To be renamed or deleted): [ C:\test\A1(3) ] to [ C:\test\004 ] To actually rename the files, remove the -l option C:\test>filerenamer.py -s "A1\(.*\)" -e "001:999" "A*" C:\test\A1(0) is renamed to C:\test\001 C:\test\A1(1) is renamed to C:\test\002 C:\test\A1(2) is renamed to C:\test\003 C:\test\A1(3) is renamed to C:\test\004 C:\test>dir /B A* File Not Found C:\test>dir /B 0* 001 002 003 004

Thanks to both for replying, ghostdog, i dont actually use python and am not sure how to even if i were to, but what you have suggested looks pretty cool, so thanks for taking the time help me. M2, i pasted the code into wordpad then done a save as and saved it as "renamer.bat". i place the bath file into the folder where all the picture are, for exaple the pictures are in a folder called 'Photos' so i placed the batch into the 'photos' folder and ran it but nothing happend, any ideas please? Thanks,

As written, it doesn't -DO- the rename; it just previews what's to be done. To activate it, edit out the ECHO before REN. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2