sfbrename

Although critical, most of us don’t usually give a second thought to file names or take the time to properly organize and rename them accordingly. That is until you need to find something among hundreds of other files on your PC. Ideally, organizing and managing files should be done regularly and files renamed properly before stored.

In case you don't have time or you need to manage dozens of files daily, then you should consider a batch renaming tool, such as sfbrename.

For starters, the tool does not come with an interface, but it is rather a console tool so that may be a problem for some users who don’t know how to use commands. Then again, if you are regularly using commands, then this lightweight app can save you a lot of time and energy.

The highlights of the program stem from the numerous options it boasts in terms of renaming. Some of these options include replacing the extension or filename with a string name, reverse extensions, transforming extensions to upper or lower case or replacing all occurrences of a string.

Other noteworthy features of the tool include the possibility to continue the renaming process when encountering an error, renaming the files in backwards orders, setting a destination folder and, of course, changing the prefixes and suffixes.

While it can be argued that you can rename files manually, this is not always the case. Imagine, for example, that you are into astrophotography and you need to process hundreds of photos taken. It would be hard to open each one and rename it accordingly. This is one of the many instances where sfbrename could come in handy for sorting and organizing all your files before processing them.