Short: Rename multiple files with ease! Author: travis@axsamer.org (Travis Riggs),travis@fcac.org (Backup email) Uploader: larjr wam umd edu Type: gfx/util Architecture: m68k-amigaos NO PAIN RENAME 2.0 (C) 1996, Creative Edge Software, Inc. by Travis Riggs INTRODUCTION: This program is released as shareware, and is fully functional. However, unregistered versions will only rename files which are located in the RAM: directory. No Pain Rename 2.0 is designed to allow you to rename a large number of files very easily. This is extremely useful for animators who want to manipulate image sequences. FEATURES: · 9 types of renaming structures · Rename in reverse order · Options for handling icons · Rename with file protection · Keep original file base name (for files which are not a sequence) · Quick select a sequence of files (seperate from additional files) · Multiple delimiters to seperate base names from the numbers · Can iconify onto workbench screen · Quick select all files in a directory · User friendly interface REGISTER: On the amiga platform, registering shareware is important to maintain further development of amiga software. If you find this program to be useful, send in the ten dollars and receive an unrestricted version of this handy utility. Send $ 10.00 in U.S. currency to: Creative Edge Software, Inc. 11655 Chesterfield Ct. #I Reston, VA 20190 e-mail is currently: travis@axsamer.org but might change in the future to: travis@fcac.org I received many e-mail letters from people using version 1.0, and appreciate the feedback. If you have comments regarding this version, please write us some e-mail! INSTALLATION: Simply unLHA the archive into the directory you wish place it on your hard drive. Pretty easy. USE: Double clicking on the icon will run the program from workbench. You will see two main areas on the screen; a file request area, and an options area. Use the file request area to choose the directory and the files you will be working with. Note that unregistered versions will only allow you to rename files located in the RAM: directory. Clicking on a file will either select it, or deselect it, depending on it's current state. Double clicking on a file will select, or deselect a sequence of files, and make the new base name the same as the sequence. The base name is simply the filename without any numbers. If you want to select all of the files in the current directory, just click on the "all" button below the file requestor. This is much faster than double clicking on a file, because the program doesn't need to compare all of the filenames. You can choose how you want the renaming structure to be with the options to the right of the file requestor. You have these choices: BASE.001 001.BASE BASE.0001 0001.BASE BASE.1 1.BASE 001 0001 1 "BASE" is the base name you will be using when you rename the files. The first option "BASE.001" will take the old filename, and rename it with the new BASE, followed by a delimiter (it defualts to "." but there are others you can choose from), and then the new number with three digits. You have the option of keeping your original BASE names, or you can replace everything with a new BASE name. When renaming the files, keep in mind that it sorts the list alphabetically (the order it appears in the file requestor from top to bottom). If you are dealing with a large number of files, you will probably want to always have placeholders for your numbers. 001 or 0001 instead of 1. If your original files are numbered: 9,10,11, etc... they will be sorted in the order they appear in the file requestor (10,11,9) which will put them out of their original order. It is typically a good idea to use placeholders for all of your numbers within the filenames. You have the option of renaming in Reverse Order, which simply starts renaming from the bottom of the file requestor, and works it's way up to the top. This is very useful for flipping around a sequence of images so that it will be played backwards. This feature has already saved me a tremendous amount of time when working on animation projects. Sometimes after renaming the files, some of the filenames will be appended with ".safe". This happens when a filename already exists. For example, let say you have ten files named: 001.image, 002.image etc... and you want to renumber them so that they start with 005. When the renaming proces begins, the program will try to rename 001.image to 005.image. But 005.image already exists, so it renames 001.image to 005.image.safe and protects the order of your files. When the proceedure is finished, there will no longer be a file called "005.image", so you can simply rename any files with the suffix ".safe" to remove the suffix. One way to prevent this kind of thing from happening is to rename your files with the "Protect Files" option turned on. This option takes twice as long as normal (because it makes two passes), but does a good job at preserving you filenames and keeping them in order. You can choose the starting number to rename with. It doesn't have to be 1. Simply change the starting number to whatever number you wish. INFORMATION: I really hope you find this program useful. I put a lot of work into it, and have already benefitted from it's new features. Please feel free to send me comments and questions either in e-mail or snail mail. Also, please feel free to distribute the UNREGISTERED version, provided you include this documentation and do not alter it. Special thanks to Mallory Woods, James Dempsey, and the users of NCAUG.