NB Renamer Manual

• Quick Start
• User Interface
  • Directory Navigation
  • Multiple File Selection
  • Preview Panel Interactivities
  • Light Theme
• Operations
• Parameters
  • Range
  • Types
    • Text
    • Section
    • Sequence
    • Date
• Batch Renaming Using a CSV File
  • Switch to CSV mode
  • CSV format
  • Delimiters
• Adhoc Renaming
• Preferences
  • General

Quick Start

User Interface

1. Selector Area - Shows folder structure. You can select the files to work on.
2. Preview Area - Two-way interaction.
   • Parameter changes in the Control Panel are previewed
   • Clicking or selecting file names populates parameters in the Control Panel
3. Control Panel - Operations and parameters that control how you want the files to be named

Directory Navigation

• Go to the parent directory
• Go to the sub directory

Multiple File Selection

To unselect multiple files, just repeat the above steps again.

Preview Panel Interactivities

• Click on file name - Set the beginning of the range using cursor’s position
• Right click on file name - In Move operation, set the destination position using cursor’s position
• Select on file name - For text, it’ll be the text to replace or move; for section, it’ll set the section’s start and length
• Mark differences - Shows what will be deleted / added to the original name
  Turning off Mark differences will just show the end result
  

Light Theme

You can choose the light theme in settings if you don’t like the default dark theme. ☛ General

Operations

• Replace - Replace text or section, re-sequence, re-format date.
• Insert - Insert text or sequence.
• Move - Move particular text or section within the file name.
• Preset - Replace part or whole name using preset rules such as lowercase.

Tips:💡 Renaming can be done in multiple steps combining those operations. Undo or redo if the results are not satisfactory.

Parameters

Range

Range defines the segment of file name that you would like to manipulate.

• From - the beginning of the range

  Tips:💡 You don’t have to count this number, click at the postion on the file name in Preview pane will populate that value for you.

• Length (for Section only) - the length of a section

  Tips:💡 Select the section of the file name in Preview pane will populate the value for you.

• forward (default) - from the beginning, select farward (left-to-right)

• backward - from the beginning, select backward (righ-to-left)

Types

Text

Replace / insert some text.

Advanced💡: Can be a Regexp if Use Regexp is ticked.

• Use Regexp - advanced

Tips💡:

1. Don’t put starting and tailing / in the Regexp
2. Don’t put /gi in the Regexp, tick All for /g and Case-insensitive for /i

Section

Previously called Fixed Length (v0.1). Handling by position instead of text.

Sequence

Insert / delete / replace sequence.

Parameters:

• Digits
  Minimum sequence digits. E.g. Digits is 3, then sequence 1 will be padded with 0s like 001.
  When Digits is 0, it means to DELETE the sequence found. In Insert operation, Digits is always greater than 1.
• Step
  The increment / decrement step of the start number. E.g. Start is 1, Step is 2, then the sequence will be 1, 3, 5…
  When Step is 0 in Re-Sequence, it means to adjust the sequence digits only.
  E.g. existing sequence in file names is 1, 2, 3…, and Digits is 3, Step is 0, then the new sequence will be 001, 002, 003…
• Start
  The starting value of the sequence.

Date

Find the dates element in file names and reformat them.

• current format
  Auto Detect should work most of the times. However can specify from the dropdown list if ambiguous.

• wiht new format
  The new year/month/day format

• Year
  4 digits / 2 digits / no year

• Month
  2 digits / 3-letter abbreviation (eg. Aug) / full name / no month

• Date
  2 digits (with leading 0 if necessary) / 1 digit (no leading 0)

• Delimiter
  - . _ (Space)

Currently Date type only supports English locale and the above 4 delimiters. For other delimiters, you’ll have to first replace it with one of the supported delimiters and then change it back after the dates re-formmating.

Batch Renaming Using a CSV File

In some cases, you may find it convenient to define just a comma / tab delimitered file for batch renaming, especially when there are weak / no patterns in the names.

Switch to CSV mode

In menu Settings -> Use file list (csv). To switch back, go Settings -> Normal rename.

CSV format

The file just needs two columns:

Current File Name, New File Name
…

For example:

a.txt,x.txt
b.txt,y.txt
c.txt,z.txt

DO NOT put a header line.

Delimiters

, (Tab) ; | etc. can be automatically recognized. You can also specify it here:

Adhoc Renaming

Tick the Inline Edit, you can directly edit the file names in a much quicker way than in Windows Explorer.

Preferences

Access Preferences via Settings -> Preferences menu or the button in app’s Control Panel.

General

• Theme
  Choose between built-in Dark and Light themes.
• Auto Preview
  Automatically preview the result when any changes are made. Suggest to turn on.
• Sort Alphanumericly
  It looks more natural to have an alphanumeric order of A1, A2, A3, A10 than A1, A10, A2, A3. Suggest to turn on.
• Reset to default
  Restore default settings.