Mass rename of pictures

within a folder...

[omoutop]

hi to all...

I need your wisdom guys and girls!

I have a folder with photos regarding products, approximately 5000 of them, I need to create a script that will get the filename for each one photo and rename it, or better yet add a sufix at the end like _small or _large...

for instanse the photo:
345-987PW.jpg has to be renamed to 345-987PW_s.jpg

Ay help will be appreciated!...

[4hero]

Hello,

This can be done very easily with Adobe Photoshop 7+.

My instructions presume that all the files you want to rename are in one folder.

To do this follow these steps (For PC only):

Open Photoshop

Open File Browser (Shift Ctrl O)

Select your source folder on the left

Press Ctrl A to select all your files on the right

Right click on one of the images

Select Batch Rename

In File Naming you will see 6 dropdown boxes

First dropdown should have document name (change to DOCUMENT NAME if you want the capitals in the file name to remain)

Second dropdown type in _sm (this will add _sm to all your images)

Third dropdown select extension from the dropdown

Press OK

Now go put the kettle on, make yourself a cup of tea and enjoy, while photoshop does all the hard work for you :)

[Habtom]

If you still want to do it via PHP, your syntax could go something like:

$files1 = scandir($dir); //this holds all your file names

and use the rename function like

rename($files1[0], withthis);

I haven't tried but it shall work.

Habtom

[omoutop]

Thank you very very much both of you for your answers and feedback, i will try both ways and report back soon enough, take care

[adb64]

I use Irfanview ( [irfanview.com...] ) or Eyebatch ( [atalasoft.com...] ) to do batch conversions.

Regards,
Arjan

[dreamcatcher]

I use a bulk file renaming program. Great little freebie.

[bexonsoft.com...]

dc

[omoutop]

thank you all for your feedback, 4hero's solution using photoshop was just fine although I do believe that all ideas provided here would be a good solutions, thank you very much all of you

[hakre]

keep in mind that opening JPG files and saving them again as JPG will result in image loss. in case you only need to rename your files they should only be renamed not resaved.