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Advanced Renamer Portable Changelog

What's new in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.95.4

Apr 15, 2024
  • New tags for fetching metadata from executables: <Exe Product>, <Exe ProductVersion>, <Exe FileVersion>, <Exe Company>, <Exe Description>
  • New Setting (Program tab): Menu sizing. Values are normal, compact or super compact. Default: Compact
  • New Setting (Program tab): Enable or disable menu group names. Disable group names for a more minimal user interface when using compact or normal menu sizing
  • Help button layout changed
  • Moved menu button "User guide" to Help drop down
  • Reduced the height and width of the menu
  • Switch menu between super compact and normal/compact by small button in the menu
  • Mouse scroll wheel didn't work for method list
  • Don't allow columns in listview to be sized to 0 pixels width
  • Timestamp method: Option "Dirname pattern" renamed to "Parent folder pattern"
  • Redesigned how Replace List is rendered to fix a random display bug
  • Settings window: First page is now the Program tab instead of Environment
  • Upgrade message and "Help getting started" moved to the bottom of the window
  • Upgrade message didn't look as expected in dark theme
  • Default size of main window is now wider
  • In the "Quick add method" panel, some buttons were not arranged correctly in some circumstances, making some not visible
  • Various minor visual changes and optimizations
  • Settings window: Removed option: "Confirm clear list"

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.95.3 (Apr 8, 2024)

  • New program icon
  • New statusbar layout
  • Changes to the Date Taken image EXIF metadata to better reflect the values seen in File Properties window in Windows Explorer. This is now the default behavior for new installations
  • Added fallback values for <Img Author>, <Img Copyright>, <Img Subject>, and <Img Title>
  • Fixed a problem where jpeg-metadata would be extracted multiple times
  • Test Names button added to the menu when Auto Test is turned off
  • Settings window: New options "Show image preview in file info panel", Default: On
  • Changed visual appearance of Last Result panel to horizontal orientation
  • Fixed Folder Panel not being able to resize before restart when not active at startup
  • Changed program font to match Windows design guide lines
  • Better support for UTF-8 characters when integrating with ExifTool
  • Audio based tags and columns renamed from ID3 or ID3/MP3 to Audio. Old tag names still work for backwards compatibility
  • DirName> tag renamed to <FolderName> for added naming consistency. Old tag name still work for backwards compatibility
  • Tag <Exe ProductVersion> renamed to <Exe Version>. Also added <Exe VersionMajor> and <Exe VersionMinor>
  • Functionality to remove items by special properties in the right click menu. New options are: "Remove unchanged items", "Remove unmarked items", and "Remove by pattern"
  • When using "Mark by pattern" and counterparts, patterns had to match exactly if no asterisk (*) was used for pattern matching. Changed so that asterisk is automatically added in front and back of pattern if none are used
  • Buttons to quickly show and hide file info panel
  • New information error code when name collision rule has altered the filename

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.95.2 (Apr 5, 2024)

  • Fixed bug in Remove By Pattern when not adding a asterisk to the pattern
  • When adding files, the last result panel will hide automatically. Added button in statusbar to toggle last result panel

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.95 (Apr 5, 2024)

  • New program icon
  • New statusbar layout
  • Changes to the Date Taken image EXIF metadata to better reflect the values seen in File Properties window in Windows Explorer. This is now the default behavior for new installations
  • Added fallback values for <Img Author>, <Img Copyright>, <Img Subject>, and <Img Title>
  • Fixed a problem where jpeg-metadata would be extracted multiple times
  • Test Names button added to the menu when Auto Test is turned off
  • Settings window: New options "Show image preview in FileInfo Box", Default: On
  • Changed visual apperance of Last Result panel to horisontal orientation
  • Fixed Folder Panel not being able to resize before restart when not active at startup
  • Changed program font to match Windows design guide lines
  • Better support for UTF-8 characters when integrating with ExifTool
  • Audio based tags and columns renamed from ID3 or ID3/MP3 to Audio. Old tag names still work for backwards compatibility
  • DirName> tag renamed to <FolderName> for added naming consistency. Old tag name still work for backwards compatibility
  • Tag <Exe ProductVersion> renamed to <Exe Version>. Also added <Exe VersionMajor> and <Exe VersionMinor>
  • Functionality to remove items by special properties in the right click menu. New options are: "Remove unchanged items", "Remove unmarked items", and "Remove by pattern"
  • When using "Mark by pattern" and counterparts, patterns had to match exactly if no asterix (*) was used for pattern matching. Changed so that asterix is automatically added in front and back of pattern if none are used
  • Buttons to quickly show and hide file info panel
  • New information error code when name collision rule has altered the filename

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.94 (Mar 21, 2024)

  • New tags for fetching metadata from executables: <Exe Product>, <Exe ProductVersion>, <Exe FileVersion>, <Exe Company>, <Exe Description>
  • New Setting (Program tab): Menu sizing. Values are normal, compact or super compact. Default: Compact
  • New Setting (Program tab): Enable or disable menu group names. Disable group names for a more minimal user interface when using compact or normal menu sizing
  • Help button layout changed
  • Moved menu button "User guide" to Help drop down
  • Reduced the height and width of the menu
  • Switch menu between super compact and normal/compact by small button in the menu
  • Mouse scroll wheel didn't work for method list
  • Don't allow columns in listview to be sized to 0 pixels width
  • Timestamp method: Option "Dirname pattern" renamed to "Parent folder pattern"
  • Redesigned how Replace List is rendered to fix a random display bug
  • Settings window: First page is now the Program tab instead of Environment
  • Upgrade message and "Help getting started" moved to the bottom of the window
  • Upgrade message didn't look as expected in dark theme
  • Default size of main window is now wider
  • In the "Quick add method" panel, some buttons were not arranged correctly in some circumstances, making some not visible
  • Various minor visual changes and optimizations
  • Settings window: Removed option: "Confirm clear list"

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.93 (Feb 7, 2024)

  • Folder select window for Move and Copy batch mode did not display buttons in the bottom of the window correctly
  • In Folder mode, the Add Files button in the toolbar was not disabled
  • In settings window, an error was sometimes displayed when configuration location was changed
  • Mouse scroll wheel did not work in List Replace method
  • Added option to move the menu to the top of the window. In auto mode (now default), the menu will automatically move to the top when window is too narrow
  • Menu is now a little less wide, and even less wide when program is in English
  • Fixed video duration not being read correctly when formatted like "10 secs" or "10.05 secs"
  • File info panel optimized for wider screens
  • Arrow-icons changed to a brighter color to make them more visible in dark theme
  • Improved JavaScript colors when editor is in dark mode
  • Various fixes and improvements

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.92 (Dec 18, 2023)

  • Dark mode
  • New document tags for PDF, Word, Powerpoint etc.: <Doc Pages>, <Doc Creator>, <Doc Title>
  • Many number based tags can now be zero padded by adding a second parameter. The length of the parameter determines the length of the number, like <Doc Pages:xxx> will result in 3 digit numbers. Available for the tags <File Size>, <Num Files>, <Num Dirs> and <Num Items>
  • Changed layout of tag picker to show tabs instead of dropdown
  • Time and file time based tags are now located on the same page in the tag selector
  • Method list toolbar didn't show hints for buttons
  • Fixed video duration tags
  • Item list grid lines are no longer the default option (they don't look good with dark mode)

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.92 Preview (Nov 19, 2023)

  • Dark mode
  • New document tags for PDF, Word, Powerpoint etc.: <Doc Pages>, <Dic Creator>, <Doc Title>
  • Many number based tags can now be zero padded by adding a second parameter. The length of the parameter determines the length of the number, like <Doc Pages:xxx> will result in 3 digit numbers. Available for the tags <File Size>, <Num Files>, <Num Dirs> and <Num Items>
  • Changed layout of tag picker to show tabs instead of dropdown
  • Time and file time based tags are now located on the same page in the tag selector
  • Method list toolbar didn't show hints for buttons
  • Fixed video duration tags

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.91 (Sep 4, 2023)

  • Fixed bug when adding folders with the button from the menu
  • Removed old languages with no recent updates
  • Moved and resized controls to better fit certain languages

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.90 (Aug 31, 2023)

  • Fixed <Day> tag. Off by a day.
  • Moved "Help getting started" button above list
  • Changed size of "Preset" text in method list toolbar

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.89 (Jun 8, 2023)

  • New menu bars
  • Method bar panel made larger. Was a problem for localized versions of Advanced Renamer
  • Clear methods now always asks to clear
  • Larger default column widths
  • Fixed: Main window did not always load maximized if closed maximized
  • Improvements made for various DPI modes
  • Measures to prevent window disappearing when closing the program with multiple monitors and opening the program with only one attached
  • Added GPS tags for video files
  • New date/time tags:
  • <Img DateOriginal:yyyy-mm-dd>, <Img DateCreate:yyyy-mm-dd>
  • <Img TimeOriginal:hh-nn-ss>, <Img TimeCreate:hh-nn-ss>
  • <Date:yyyy-mm-dd>, <Time:hh-nn-ss>
  • <Date Created:yyyy-mm-dd>, <Time Created:hh-nn-ss>
  • <Date Modified:yyyy-mm-dd>, <Time Modified:hh-nn-ss>
  • <Video Date:yyyy-mm-dd>, <Video Time:hh-nn-ss>
  • Fixed bug where the program would start outside the active screen area
  • Better support for multple monitors
  • Fixed index bug in exif tool window
  • Support for RW2 image format
  • TV show import removed
  • Bitrate based tags removed. They were unreliable.
  • Field GPS Accuracy removed from file info box
  • Library dependencies for video tags removed
  • ID3 duration tags removed (sorry)

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.88.1 (Jul 20, 2021)

  • Added tag <GPS Country Short>
  • Better support for long path names, more than 260 characters in length. Still not perfect and not all parts of the program will work with these files
  • Language name not showing for Spanish translation
  • Fixed list right click -> mark by pattern
  • Fixed "Dont't show this again" checkbox in TV Show Import
  • Fixed encoding error in TV show import

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.87 (Oct 13, 2020)

  • New name collision rule: New name
  • Let slow scripts run for longer before timeout error
  • Script methods: Added console.log() as alias for app.log()
  • Script added app.logItem(item) method to list all item properties in JS console
  • Filter options in JS Console. Show only log ouput from specific item
  • Fixed: Name collision rule Ignore did not show new filename correctly
  • Fixed: Tag <Video Date Year> did not work in script method
  • Fixed windows explorer context menu
  • Fixed: Scripting returned booleans, dates, and numbers as strings
  • Fixed: app.log(value) when value is an object will no longer fail

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.86.1 (Aug 6, 2020)

  • New and improved JS scripting engine
  • Executables compiled as 64 bit binariesSettings:
  • Button for removing all personal settings and restart the program
  • Method list: Right click: Duplicate method
  • Fixed problem where some elements in the main window would disappear when using multiple monitors
  • Tags for video codec and video audio codec has been removed

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.85 (Jul 11, 2019)

  • Performance optimization for ExifTool when using program settings "Always use ExifTool for retrieving metadata" and when using ExifTool for fetching timestamps from images
  • Improvements for high dpi displays
  • Fix for new case method when changing case of local characters
  • Fix: Sometimes the method panel is not showing
  • Fix: When adding folders from folder panel the folder could get locked, preventing rename of the folder
  • Fix: Program may become unstable after batch with errors

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.84 (Oct 8, 2018)

  • Script method: Javascript console for better debugging
  • Added checkbox in settings window: Don't show summary before renaming
  • TV Show import guide: Skip welcome page checkbox
  • Pair renaming option in main view. Removed from settings window
  • New tags for embedded video date and time: <Video Date Year>, <Video Date Month>, <Video Date Day>, <Video Date Hour>, <Video Date Min>, <Video Date Sec>
  • Support for HEIC image format used on iPhones
  • Option in settings: Always use ExifTool to retrieving metadata for images

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.82 (Apr 3, 2018)

  • Pair renaming active by default on new installations
  • Pair renaming will now prioritize media files when dertmining the master file in a pair
  • TV show import didn't handle file pairs well
  • Default setting for "Add files when batch ends" changed from None to Ask
  • Fixed not visible Apply To box in List and Replace List method when running display in 200% scaling
  • Performance optimization when adding files, detecting file pairs, and running batches
  • Performance of detecting name collisions improved dramatically
  • Fixed bug when using image tags for non images
  • Pre batch window now shows the number of methods that will be used
  • + Added Bulgarian translation

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.82 Beta (Mar 11, 2018)

  • Pair renaming active by default on new installations
  • Pair renaming will now prioritize media files when dertmining the master file in a pair
  • Default setting for "Add files when batch ends" changed from None to Ask
  • Fixed not visible Apply To box in List and Replace List method when running display in 200% scaling
  • Performance optimization when adding files, detecting file pairs, and running batches
  • Performance of detecting name collisions improved dramatically
  • Fixed bug when using image tags for non images
  • Pre batch window now shows the number of methods that will be used

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.81 (Feb 13, 2018)

  • CSV Import: Default Apply To fields to name and extension instead of just name
  • CSV Import: Program will remember field values when window is closed
  • CSV Import: Changed to use UTF-8 encoding
  • Renumber method: Fixed renumbering relative numbers when the number is very long
  • When using media tags like Img or Video for folders the program will now use the properties of the first file in the folder
  • Load list now supports UTF-8
  • New case method did not support UTF-8 in the pattern match modes
  • Fixed <Inc Nr> zeropadding and <Num Files> value when working with file pairs

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.80 (Oct 18, 2017)

  • Improved integration with ExifTool
  • Optimized performance when testing new file names
  • Option for not analyzing media files (program settings window)

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.79 (Sep 6, 2017)

  • Folder panel will no longer show zip files as folders
  • When adding both root and sub folders, the root folders will be added last instead of first
  • Files are no longer sorted alphabetically when dragged from Windows Explorer
  • Add files not matching a regular expression
  • Added option in settings to move the Start Button to the left
  • Ukranian translation

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.78 (Aug 21, 2017)

  • Better support for high DPI monitors
  • Larger present methods drop down
  • Fixed status bar some times showing "Got errors" when no errors were found
  • Updated regular expressions engine
  • Fixed wrong thumbnail size in list
  • Various user interface changes:
  • Check/Uncheck all on method list right click popup
  • Delete old undo jobs

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.77 (Apr 18, 2017)

  • Rename file pairs with the same new filename
  • Make text blue for items with name override (F2 key)
  • Improved error message for error code 101
  • Deleted presets were not removed from the presets drop down
  • Allow main menu to wrap into two lines when window is too small
  • Updated language files

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.76 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Override new filename (F2 key)
  • Hitting enter key will now open the file. Hitting ctrl + enter will open the folder of the file
  • Added tag <ID3 Disc>
  • Don't analyze video files unless video tags are used
  • New Name method will remember last used page
  • Shift+F10 did not open file list popup menu

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.75 (Mar 7, 2017)

  • GPS Tag override window
  • Write EXIF Metadata
  • New tag: <Rand Str> for random text strings
  • Fixed timestamp method reading filename pattern when pattern contains ( or )

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.74 (Feb 21, 2017)

  • Added search edit box to the ExifTool window
  • Larger preview image in file info box when selecting image files in the list
  • Fixed TV shows with characters not legal for filenames like * or ?
  • Fixed FileInfo box not using last resized height
  • Fixed reading DPI from image files, namely TIFF files

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.73 (Aug 22, 2016)

  • New method: List Replace. Replace multiple phrases in a single method
  • TV Show Import: Added Select All/Select None buttons for seasons and episodes checklist box

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.72 (Mar 28, 2016)

  • New tag for image resolution in dots per inch:
  • New tags for image width and height in inches, cm and mm: , , , , ,
  • CSV Import now also work with folder rename
  • Link for tag documentation in the insert tag frame
  • Fix name collision bug when using incrementing number. Fallback to old logic

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.71 (Feb 20, 2016)

  • New name collision rule: Ignore. Will ignore batch on single file is target already exists
  • Batch mode and output folder values are not saved in batch method list files. This makes these values optional for command line runner (arenc.exe)
  • Fixed CSV Import: Would get the order of new names wrong when one or more files were missing

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.70 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • Fixed ExifTool bug. Sometimes values were shifted when assigned to items in the list resulting in wrong values for some items
  • Fixed "Invalid floating point" error when sorting on column Date Taken when column contains blank values
  • Updated translations

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.69 (Dec 7, 2015)

  • Fixed: TV Show import: When multiple hits from search query, only the first hit were shown
  • Shortcut for opening the TV Show import guide

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.68 (Nov 3, 2015)

  • New tags: , , and
  • Romanian translation
  • Korean translation
  • Catalan translation
  • Uses TVMaze instead of TVRage for TV Show information import
  • Fixed: Calculation of file size only supported sizes up to 2 GB
  • FileInfoBox: Don't load images if more than 30MB (it was too slow)
  • Reimplemented parts of the ExifTool integration. Hopefully it will become more stable
  • Fixed: Update was not showing when changing created timestamp of folders

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.67 (Nov 3, 2015)

  • Fixed Timestamp and Attributes method changed files even if they were not checked in the list

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.66 (May 7, 2015)

  • Add files using regular expressions pattern
  • Updated translations
  • Fixed bug in natural numeric sort

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.65 (Dec 1, 2014)

  • ExifTool tags will automatically replace unsupported characters
  • Fixed tag when searching for the last word in a filename
  • Name collision rules will now also apply to collision on existing files
  • File list popup: Added "Open Containing Folder"
  • Explorer Context menu fixed on 64 bit windows

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.64 (Mar 27, 2014)

  • Fixed reading some corrupted ExifData from JPEGs taken with Samsung mobile phones
  • Day tag textual result with and
  • Item list limit can now be changed in the settings window
  • Mark items not matching pattern right click options
  • Fixed explorer context menu for 64 bit Windows 8 systems

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.63 Beta (Mar 10, 2014)

  • Day tag textual result with and
  • Item list limit can now be changed in the settings window
  • Mark items not matching pattern right click options
  • Fixed explorer context menu for 64 bit Windows 8 systems

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.62 (Jan 21, 2014)

  • Fixed: and tags were only working properly for the first file in the list

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.61 (Jan 21, 2014)

  • Command line configuration dialog
  • New list popup menu item: Inverse marks in list
  • New list popup menu item: Select all, select none, inverse selection
  • New tag: for reading line in file
  • New tag: for decrementing number
  • Improved performance for tag
  • Arabic Translation

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.60 (Sep 8, 2013)

  • Added new tags , , , for adding audio playtime to filename
  • Added new tags , , for adding video playtime to filename ( already existed)
  • Fixed mask search when adding files matching a mask

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.59 (Aug 18, 2013)

  • Fixed bug when changing case of unicode characters
  • Fixed error message when reading timestamp from file filename. Message is now displayed in the grid instead of crashing the batch process.
  • Added and tags
  • "Need help getting startet" button on Folders tab did not follow the checkbox in settings
  • Insert tag window showed regular expression help line for \D twice
  • It was not possible to delete column sets due to an error
  • .webm files are now recognized as video file
  • Setting "Use zero padding in inc nr tags" now also affects ID3 Track Tags
  • Display hints for all tags accepting parameters
  • Date/Time based tags now all take and extra parameter for controlling zero padding, ex or and or

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.58 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Fixed bug in FileContent tag when using specific filename.
  • Changed Load/Save presets icons
  • Scripting: Default script changed
  • Mark/Unmark by pattern, making checkboxes selected/unselected when matching pattern
  • Added minimum width to renaming result box
  • New tags: and for incrementing hexidecimal and roman numerals

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.57 (May 3, 2013)

  • Fixed analyze image bug. Images with upper case extension were not analyzed
  • Added TVShow Episode Sequence number tag. An episode number representing the number in the series not in the season

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.56 (Apr 7, 2013)

  • Optimized scripting speed and memory use
  • Won't analyze files for image data until actually needed. Will improve performance of adding files
  • Fixed bug where name collision rule wasn't showing on low screen resolutions
  • Fixed display of ampersand in method descriptions
  • Trim non-numeric values from ID3 track numbers
  • Improved use of ExifTool when working with many files

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.55 Beta (Jan 28, 2013)

  • TV Show population based on data from tvrage.com
  • New TV Show tags: , , , , , , , ,
  • Up/down arrows to change visible tag group in New Name method and Insert Tag window
  • CSV import functionality
  • New Swap Method
  • Two new configuration options for JS Script: Tab Indent Size and Scroll Past EOL

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.54 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Command line automation: Mask parameter is no longer case sensitive
  • Command line automation: Fixed command line output
  • File content tag now fixed to use UTF8 text encoding
  • Fixed problems when saving script files containing "; text sequence
  • Fixed bug when changing modified timestamp based on dirname pattern

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.53 (Sep 28, 2012)

  • New checksum tags: , , and
  • ApplyTo dropdown in scripting method
  • Scripting: Date/Time values of the "item" parameter are now exposed as proper JSDates
  • Sorting in console runner with -o switch
  • Fixed load previous path bug in folder panel

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.52 (Sep 1, 2012)

  • Scripting: Fixed app.parseTags() methods. Did not accept upper case and spaces in tags
  • Scripting: Changed app.parseTags() to only accept one parameter: the tag
  • Scripting: Auto proposal is no longer case sensitive
  • Scripting: Changed autoproposal to display top level objects (app and item) when no word at cursor
  • Fixed Replace Method and Remove Pattern Method: Case sensitive checkbox worked in reverse
  • Slovenian translation
  • Default width of method panel is now wider
  • Fixed daylight savings miscalculation when reading file times

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.51 (Aug 25, 2012)

  • Fixed copy and move mode
  • Fixed the use of the setting "Show help getting started"
  • Fixed miscalculation in RSubStr tag and use of backwards pattern search in methods

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.50 (Aug 21, 2012)

  • Unicode support
  • Support for JPEG 2000
  • Support for reading EXIF and image dimensions from stereo MPO and JPS images
  • Reintroduced up/down buttons for numeric edit boxes
  • Fixed file size decimal point bug
  • Created Date and Modified Date based tags is now using modified value if used with Timestamp method
  • Support for using more than one Timestamp method
  • Changed compiler and various libraries
  • New method: Script. Can perform advanced actions based on custom JavaScript code.
  • Active/Inactive checkboxes on methods
  • Integration with the ExifTool executable. Window for displaying ExifTool information and a new tag:
  • Added two new command line options: -msk and -r for only performing batch on items matching a specific mask or regular expression
  • List method now persists content of new names text field when saved
  • Fixed access violation bug in Add Directory window
  • Japanese translation
  • Explorer right click context menu for both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows
  • Folder panel for easy access to adding files and folders (optional)
  • New icons in the user interface
  • Auto test button is now always pressed when program is started
  • Occurence value added to Replace method
  • If opening aren.exe with files as parameters and the first is a .aren file, the rest will no longer get ignored
  • Batch move and batch copy no longer requires renaming methods
  • Option for turning off wildcards (*) in replace method has been removed

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.24 (Mar 16, 2012)

  • Greek translation
  • Made Advanced Renamer more tolerant towards jpg files with malformed exif data
  • Extension change warnings does no longer occour on folders
  • Fixed odd behavior in recent preset combobox
  • Fixed cancel button in loading thumbnails progress window

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.23 (Mar 16, 2012)

  • GPS Improvements
  • New tags: ,
  • GPS Accuracy in File information box (if present in selected image file)

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.22 (Feb 13, 2012)

  • Settings: Add Advanced Renamer program path to Environment Path. For use with the arenc.exe console runner
  • Console runner: Added switch (-s) for performing batch on items in subfolders
  • Put descriptions in the title area of methods
  • Handle negative numbers option added to renumbering method in relative number mode
  • List method will no longer produce an error for all the lines when one of the lines contains an invalid tag
  • Clean up of handling extension rename

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.21 (Feb 1, 2012)

  • French translation
  • Will now only check for updates once a day
  • Fixed: Timestamp method did not consider second value in delta mode
  • Fixed: Timestamp method did not load settings from file correctly

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.20 (Jan 18, 2012)

  • Command line automation
  • Video tags: , , , , , , , ,
  • Video tags on information pane
  • More EXIF image tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
  • GPS Tags for geotagged pictures , , , , , , , ,
  • Tags for City, Country, and State based on GPS Coordinates
  • New method: Trim
  • New method: Renumber
  • Apply to option added to the New Name Method. ApplyTo Name is now the default
  • Randomize Sorting menu item in file list right click menu
  • Option for default action when batch is finished can be set up in the Settings window
  • Show GPS location and link to google maps when GPS data is available in image file
  • Populate list on the List Method now only add the part of the name represented by the ApplyTo drop down box
  • Filename showing in the caption of item information box
  • Name Collision Rule now saved when saving method list
  • Default column widths changed
  • More default method list presets
  • When using a relative path in move or copy mode the absolute path is calculated based on the existing path
  • Setting for hiding Add Method Button Bar
  • Will show a better error message when trying to move folders to a different drive
  • Fixed: Name collision rule, Append Pattern, didn't support spaces and uppercase characters
  • Fixed: Some tag categories were missing in Insert Tag Frame when using a different language than English
  • Fixed: Did not resolve all tags when using replace method with regular expressions
  • Fixed: Bug when using invalid tags in replace method
  • Fixed: Tag buttons did not always behave as expected
  • French and Dutch translation removed due to low coverage

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.15 (Oct 29, 2011)

  • Chinese translation
  • File size tags
  • Tags can now be expressed with or without spaces: and yields same result

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.14 (Oct 7, 2011)

  • Fixed not being able to load preset files containing the Remove Pattern method

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.13 (Sep 25, 2011)

  • New method: Remove pattern
  • Apply to option added to the List Method
  • After rename a box in the lower right corner will show results and have buttons for re-adding items
  • Option "Auto close progress dialog" removed. Will always auto close from now on.
  • Preset button available next to folder text box in copy and move mode
  • Columns for New filename, New path, New attributes, and New timestamps will become gray when there is no changes to the value represented by the column
  • Brazilian Portuguese translation

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.12 (Aug 14, 2011)

  • Dirname tag now has an optional index parameter for c:\A\B\C\file.txt DirName:2 will yield B
  • Name collision rules now apply to all duplicates. Previous the rule was not applied to the first entry in a duplication set
  • Renaming sequences like 003, 004, 005 to 001, 002, 003 would fail in previous version
  • Add method button now opens popup instead of a new window

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.11 (Jul 20, 2011)

  • New Folder button added to select folder dialog for batch modes copy and move
  • Fixed incompatibility issues with Windows XP

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.10 (Jul 8, 2011)

  • The EXIF value for image date and time can be changed in the settings window. Possible values are date taken, date digitized, and date original
  • New setting: Option for not letting unchecked items affect the numbering of Inc Nr tags
  • New tag: Word. For selecting an indexed word
  • New tag: Img Subsec. Exif value sometimes present when shooting bursts
  • New Case method: Upper case by pattern and lower case by pattern, with regular expressions support
  • Files with the .aren extension containing configuration can be opened with Advanced Renamer
  • aren files are associated with Advanced Renamer
  • Name collision rule: New rule: Append image sub second
  • Name collision rule: New rule: Append pattern
  • Name collision rule: Separator can be customized
  • Name collision rule: Moved from settings window to main window
  • Insert tag window updated with more advanced functionality and help for regular expressions ue
  • Move, Add, Remove method: Can now also take search strings and regular expressions as input values
  • Method Presets are now saved in individual files. Users can save them in a preferred location
  • Method captions no longer show a configuration description. With more and more advanced ways of configurating methods the descriptions gets long, complicated, and unreadable
  • Fixed: List Method: New Names column did not properly refresh when the Load List or Populate List buttons were used
  • Fixed: When a name collision rule resultet in another collision an error would not be raised
  • Vairous tweaks, changes and fixes

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.05 (Apr 20, 2011)

  • Fixed issues with RSubStr tag
  • Fixed problem with renaming image files without Exif information

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.04 (Apr 7, 2011)

  • Fixed bug when reading numeric values from method files
  • RSubStr now behaves a little bit different when count value is larger than the length of the filename
  • Remove method did not remove anything when start index was larger then the length of the filename in backwards mode

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.03 (Apr 5, 2011)

  • Fixed bug when working with folders

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.02 (Apr 4, 2011)

  • Fixed error in wild card replace
  • Updated Finish translation

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.01 (Mar 15, 2011)

  • Fixed wrong result when using move method in backwards mode
  • Fixed a couple of memory leaks
  • Fixed a character case bug in Add Method

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 3.0 (Mar 8, 2011)

  • New batch modes: Copy and move
  • In addition to renaming files and folders Advanced Renamer can now also copy and move the items. The new folder is written in the edit field next to the batch mode drop down box. Tags can be used to customize the folder name for each item in the list individually. The New Path column can be used to validate the new path name before starting the batch process. Any folder in the path will be automatically created when the file is copied or moved.
  • Selective rename
  • Choose only to rename some of the files in the list by manipulating the checkbox next to the files. By default all files will be marked for batch processing but you can choose which ones you want to rename. Use the associated functions in the right click menu to use this feature more effectively.
  • Set file timestamps from pattern in filename or directory name
  • If you have files with dates or timestamps in the file name you want copied to the created or modified attribute of the file Advanced Renamer can now recognize the values based on a pattern. The Year, Month, Day, Hour, Min, and Sec tags can be used here to match values in the file or parent folder name.
  • Context menu "Add to Advanced Renamer" in Windows Explorer
  • A Windows Explorer context menu has been added to make it easier to add files and folders to the list. Right click on one or more items in Explorer and select "Add to Advanced Renamer" to add the items to the list.
  • Note: This feature has to be enabled in the settings dialog.
  • New tag: Substr
  • A new advanced tag called Substr has been introduced. The tag can be used to insert a piece of the original filename into the new file name. The tag takes two parameters, an index and a count. Example: Filename is "Hello my friend" and the tag is configured Substr:7:2 the result will yield "my".
  • Menu item for removing non ID3 and non image files from the list
  • In addition to the option of removing files with errors you can now also remove all files without ID3 tag or image information.
  • Dragging folders from explorer onto Advanced Renamer will display add choices
  • When dragging files from Windows Explorer into Advanced Renamer, there is no doubt how the items should be added. But when dragging folders into the list there is two ways these folders can be added, either as the files in the folders or the actual folders for folder rename. When adding the folders as files you get the choice of including subfolders and to supply a filename mask.
  • This dialog will also show when adding folders through the Windows Explorer context menu.
  • Stay current with new updates
  • When Advanced Renamer starts it will automatically check for upgrades online and display a message if a new version is available. It will not take focus away from the current task but simply just state the fact that a new version can be downloaded.
  • Save to CSV file
  • If you want to save all the data shown in the grid to a CSV you can use this new feature. You will then be able to work with the file or folder data in another program like Microsoft Excel.

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 2.7.4 (Nov 24, 2010)

  • Changed toolbar theme
  • Bug fix: Sorting with numbers failed with big numbers
  • Visual update of progress dialogs
  • New method list: Weboptimized filename
  • New predefined pattern templates

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 2.7.3 (Oct 10, 2010)

  • List Method: Populate text box with file names from the list
  • When recieving and error while adding items to the list a message will tell which items could not be added
  • Bugfix: Typing a < in List Method resulted in a crash

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 2.7.2 (Aug 29, 2010)

  • Bitrate tag
  • Support for Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
  • Support for Windows Media Audio (WMA)
  • Support for Advanced Audio Codec (AAC)
  • Tag button next to edit fields supporting tags
  • Extension column
  • Insert tag window: Help button was not working properly
  • Insert tag window: Not all the components of the window was translated
  • Bugfix: Delete method button on method pane did not result in file list refresh
  • Other minor fixes

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 2.7 (Jul 12, 2010)

  • Customizable name collision rule - either fail or append number
  • Not all settings were reverted to default when using the revert to defaults button in the settings window
  • Better support for thumbnail view
  • To improve performance FileInfoBox only show thumbnails instead of loading the complete image
  • Memory enhancement when working with thumbnails
  • Default thumbnail size changed to 120x120
  • Icon for toggle thumbnail display menu item
  • Toggle listview view style (Details, Large icons, Small icons, and List)

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 2.67 (Jun 9, 2010)

  • Fixed problem when using alot of methods. Not all methods were visible in the panel. Now all method panels have fixed height
  • Minor graphical tweaks of method panels
  • Updated spanish translation
  • Now uses correct icon for About box in the main menu

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 2.66 (May 15, 2010)

  • Customize columns button above list of files/folders

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 2.65 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Added support for regular expressions in replace method using pcrelib
  • Natural sort when sorting text columns. Instead of sorting 1, 10, 4 it sorts 1, 4, 10
  • Russian translation
  • Finnish translation
  • Made the editboxes in the replace method enlarge to the width of the box when resized

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 2.65 Beta (Mar 23, 2010)

  • Added support for regular expressions in replace method using pcrelib
  • Natural sort when sorting text columns. Instead of sorting 1, 10, 4 it sorts 1, 4, 10
  • Russian translation
  • Made the editboxes in the replace method enlarge to the width of the box when resized

New in Advanced Renamer Portable 2.62 (Feb 12, 2010)

  • Possible to turn off leading zeros in IncNr and IncNrDir
  • Fixed bug with IncNrDir. Same value was used for all entries in the list
  • Fixed bug with movement in the list