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Ken Rename

Version: 0.65

Downloads Count: 1,538

License Type: Free

Price: Free

Date Added: Dec 1, 2008

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003

File Size: 608 KB

Author: Ken

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Editorial Review of Ken Rename

Ken Rename is a small and useful utility which allows for easy rules-based, bulk, file renaming. This has many uses--sometimes, 'official' formats for things like archive file names are changes (i.e, from "Oct2008.bak" to "08-2008.bak", or whatever), or you wish to quickly give a group of disparate files a single additional identifying string in the name. Ken Rename allows you to specify a series of changes using a fairly intuitive interface, preview the results, and then execute them. Most useful of all, there's an Undo!

If you know what a Regular Expression is, you can use one of those, or you can simply type out a string. There are many options, such as "insert 3 spaces from end", or change the code page, or change the text case. You create each change separately and add it to a list; when you execute, each step in the list is performed in order. The file window shows a preview of what the name will look like.

I tried to 'fool' the program by setting up a sequence which would give two files the same name; it quite properly stopped after the first file.

The only real issue I see with Ken Rename is that it works only on files in a single directory at a time. I could not find a way to get it to traverse nested directories or allow selections across multiple directories. Granted, this is a feature which is rarely needed.

Ken Rename is easy to use, does what it's supposed to, and is under active development. If you need it, it's worth trying out.

--Ian Harac

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