EasyRename

Let’s say you just got home from a long vacation and you just plugged in your camera to transfer all your pictures to your PC. What’s more, you want to keep them all organized and easily identify them by their name, but the camera doesn’t exactly tell you where and what happened. In this case, you can use EasyRename to perform a batch operation on all files to properly name them.

As the name clearly points out, the core function is to change the name of files, and you can do this for anything, regardless of format. However, you’re limited to a maximum number of 158 files, so you need to do this in multiple turns if you want to rename more.

You can use the dedicated browse dialog to select individual files, or directly drop them over the main window. In case you decide to add an entire directory, a prompt shows up asking whether or not to include subfolders. Once done, files are shown in a list with path and name. Sadly, there’s no preview area, so you need to be extra careful to rules you apply.

There are two tabs through which to target files. EasyRename gives you the possibility to manage the name, as well as the extension. It’s recommended to manage the extension first, because the default option is to remove extension, and if you’re not paying attention, you can end up with a bunch of useless files.

Oddly enough, there seem to be more options related to the extension rather than the file name itself. For instance, you can only completely change the name and enumerate files, or don’t target the name at all. Whereas for extensions, you find all the options you were hoping to perform for the name, like add or subtract characters, add numbers, and more.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that EasyRename comes with good intentions, but seems to get stuck along the way, doing a better job at renaming extensions than the name of the file itself. Some degree of attention needs to be paid at first, or you can end up removing extensions, while the list of files can hold a limited number of items.