Quick Ren

Transferring a bunch of pictures from your camera isn’t a difficult task, but chances are you want them to be fitted with names which area easy to remember. Needless to say that it’s a pain to manually go through each, but this is exactly where specialized applications like Quick Ren come in handy, to rename multiple files at a time.

First of all, the application is portable, allowing you to see what it’s all about from the moment download is done, but also to deploy it on a thumb drive in case you want to use it on other computers. Note, however, that it requires Microsoft Visual Basic Runtime to function, so you need to install it first.

A pretty compact window shows up on launch, with several fields which need to be filled in with the source directory, and renaming rule you wish to apply. The overall process doesn’t take a lot of time, not for you to fill in requirement field, or the application to process files in the source folder.

By default, the application only targets JPG file, but don’t be fooled, because you’re able to apply renaming rules to any kind of file. Sure enough, you need to set up a filter to prevent renaming particular types of files inside the source folder, but you can also have all of them targeted. Sadly, you can either rename all of them, or just a single file type.

Renaming rules need to be manually specified. Unfortunately, you might not entirely be happy with the way this goes, because it’s devoid of advanced parameters. In other words, you’re only able to add a custom prefix, which can either be in the type of a word, letter, or enumeration.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Quick Ren is sure to get the job done, especially when you want to add numbers or a custom prefix to a large collection of files. Sadly, renaming rules are pretty poor, without options to extract or inject custom characters, while still keeping the original name intact.