{"id":1945,"date":"2016-04-06T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2016-04-06T15:39:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T22:39:34","slug":"need-to-rename-a-whole-whack-of-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"Need to rename a whole whack of folders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1947 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mainscr-300x228.png\" alt=\"Bulk Rename Utility\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mainscr-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mainscr.png 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>After converting almost 16 000 MP3s to a lower bit-rate\u00a0using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/taudioconverter.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">TAudioConverter<\/a>, I realized I forgot to check off &#8220;add encoder suffix to created folders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in hundreds of folders with &#8220;_Lame&#8221; tacked on to the end of each\u00a0folder name.<\/p>\n<p>I started picturing renaming them all by hand and decided to search out something that could do it for me.<\/p>\n<p>Google brought me to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk<\/a> and the Bulk Rename Utility. \u00a0The name isn&#8217;t very imaginative, but it&#8217;s free and it worked perfectly. \u00a0It only took a second or two once I figured out the interface, which isn&#8217;t exactly clean.<\/p>\n<p>My only complaint is that the logging function doesn&#8217;t appear to work. \u00a0I thought it was a permissions issue, but moving it to a non-system folder didn&#8217;t make a difference. \u00a0I used the Portable version if that makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ComputerAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google brought me to http:\/\/www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk\/ and the Bulk Rename Utility.  The name isn&#8217;t very imaginative, but it&#8217;s free and it worked perfectly.  It only took a second or two once I figured out the interface, which isn&#8217;t exactly clean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11UM6-vn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}