Renamer

When transferring a bunch of pictures from your camera to the computer these are found under names which make it close to impossible to tell content. However, this can be the case with other types of files, especially when there are more of the same type involved. Luckily, you can use specialized applications like Renamer to cleverly organize them by name.

On the bright side of things, the application saves you a great deal of effort and time required to go through a setup process, and is good to go from the moment download is done. As such, it can be stored on a thumb drive, and carried around as a personal renaming tool you can use on other computers without damaging them, because registry entries are not modified in the process.

Aesthetics are of little concern here, and so the application keeps the visual design clear and simple. A list is used to show all files you load by name, extension and path. Although there's no load option that targets the content of an entire folder, the browse dialog at your disposal allows you to select multiple files.

It would have been useful to see a preview section inside the list, but some renaming methods provide a preview field. This means you need a great deal of attention so you don't mess things up more. Each renaming method comes with its own set of variable fields, depending on type. Note that files are renamed at the press of a button, with no possibility to undo an operation.

A drop-down menu is used to select the method. You can pick from replacing with spaces, line by line replace, search and replace, regular expression replace, insert text at a position, remove text by position, and miscellaneous replace which means replacing URL encoding, and to trim spaces, which comes in handy for keeping organized collections.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Renamer is a practical tool for organizing various types of collections so that they're easy to identify, even by name. You can carry it on a thumb drive since installation is not required, while the variety of rename methods are sure to make it worth your while.