Solved Renaming multiple folders

[union865]

I am trying to rename 100's of folders with a persons name convention. What I have now is the first name first and a space and then a last name. Sometimes the first name is instead initials with periods and spaces and then the last name. What I am looking to do is have the last name changed to the front of the folder, then have a comma, then a space, then the first name or initials, whatever was in front before. I have tried many different folder renaming programs and they all do some things really great, but none of them will take the letters after a space and put it in front of the folder name, then add a comma then a space.

Such as;
United States
Change to;
States, United
or;
U. S. America
Change to;
America, U. S.

Thanks for any help with this.

 

[lehnerus2000]

There are various (free) programs available which may be able to help you.
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwfilerename.html
http://www.howtogeek.com/111859/how...s-in-windows-4-ways-to-rename-multiple-files/

You should be able to find various scripts on the Internet which can do that job.

I use FreeCommander for my mass-renaming jobs.

 

[Roderunner]

Here is the easiest way to do it.
Open the folder, set view to list, highlight all, right click the top file & select rename. Enter the text you want & hit Enter. Job done.

 

[FuturDreamz]

Here is the easiest way to do it.
Open the folder, set view to list, highlight all, right click the top file & select rename. Enter the text you want & hit Enter. Job done.

no.



That being said, it shouldn't be too hard to write a batch scrip to do it.
are all names in the "first(space)last" format? if the file name only has the one space, then that would make it pretty easy.

 

[union865]

That won't work because it will rename all the folders the same name. And no, it isn't just a name space name format.

 

[union865]

lehnerus2000, I tried all of those programs today and none of them give me what I want. I don't know what scripts are, but I'll google it and see if there is something out there that will do what I want. Thanks for the info though.

 

[FuturDreamz]

That won't work because it will rename all the folders the same name. And no, it isn't just a name space name format.

Ok. is there any kind of method that is true in all cases, which would allow a program to consistently tell when the first name ends and the last name begins? Or at least enough of the times that you can manually fix them?

 

[union865]

Yes there is. There is a space before each last name, so if a program could start at the end of a folder name, go back and look for the first space, then copy everything to the right of that space, insert it in the front of the folder name, then add a comma and a space, it would work perfectly.

 

[FuturDreamz]

Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strFolder = "C:\path\of\folder\of\folders"
Set objFolder = objFS.GetFolder(strFolder)
For Each Folder In objFolder.SubFolders
	strFolderName = Folder.Name
	For i=1 To Len(strFolderName)
		if Mid(strFolderName,i,1) = " " Then
			strEndOfFirst = i
		End If
	Next
	strFirstName = Mid(strFolderName,1,strEndOfFirst)	
	strLastName = Mid(strFolderName,strEndOfFirst + 1)
	strNewName = strLastName & ", " & strFirstName
	Folder.Name=strNewName
Next

change "C:\path\of\folder\of\folders" to the folder where the folders are located
save as "rename.vbs" but if you use notepad, remember to save as type: All Files(*.*)
then you should be able to just double click it and it'll run.
feel free to try it on sample folders first.

 

[union865]

AHHHHHHHHHH, it worked perfectly FuturDreamz. I didn't know you could do that within Notepad. I actually tried to run a test on it, but it ran when I tried to open it and modify it to go to a sub-folder first. They all came out GREAT. Geez, what a relief. Thanks a lot. Perfect perfect perfect

 

[jonathanf345]

Renaming multiple folders Solved by BatchRenameFiles Tool .
you can find this too by searching tools -BatchRenameFiles Tool