abcdefGARY - 1:29 am on Dec 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

hello,

I'm trying to find a mass renaming software that will rename by the order that I place it in manually... most of the renaming software that I've tried only allows me to rename them by name or whatever but I want them to be named in the order that I put them in.

I've only been able to come up with one solution but it doesn't work 100%:
so I used window's explorer's select all > file > rename function, which automatically renames the files in the order I put them in. however, windows puts parenthesized numbers:

file
file (1)
file (2)
file (3)
file (4)
file (5)
file (6)
file (7)
file (8)
file (9)
file (10)
file (11)

I think you can spot the problem I'm having when I open up the mass rename program to get rid of the parenthesis, it only lets me go by name, so the order will be like this and messes up the order:

file (1)
file (10)
file (11)
file (2)
file (3)
file (4)
and so on...

so my question is: does anyone know of any program that will let me rename by the order I place them in, rather than by name?

thanks