ReNamer:Menus for the Files pane

ReNamer has a menu bar between the Rules and Files panes .

This appendix describes options available from this menu.

Files menu

See Files menu article.

Filters menu

When you click on the button, the Filters window pops up. It controls what gets added to the Files pane when you use the  button or Drag & Drop or Copy & Paste methods.

The options work as follows:

Option	Effect
Add files within folders	When this option is selected, ReNamer scans the selected folders iteratively (including its subfolders), and loads all the files for renaming. If you want to rename only the folders (and not their contents), untick this option, and select the Add folders as files checkbox.
Add folders as files	If this option is selected, ReNamer treats a folder just like a file (not as a container that holds files and subfolders). So only the folder is loaded, and not the files in it. This is useful for renaming the folder itself.
Include subfolders	Loads contents from all subfolders recursively. If this option is unselected, when you add a folder, its subfolders will be ignored.
Include hidden items	Include or exclude hidden items when adding the content of folders folders.
Include system items	Include or exclude system protected items when adding the content of folders folders.
Skip root folders when added as files	Works when the Add folders as files and Include subfolders options are selected. When it's on, ReNamer adds all the subfolders but not the root folder itself.
Masks	All added files (or folders as files) must match specified masks. For example, if you enter *.jpg;*.gif;*.png as an Include mask, ReNamer will add only files with these extensions. Everything else will be filtered out, i.e. not added to ReNamer. The Exclude mask will do the opposite, it will filter out everything that matches the mask.
Apply only to the file name	Changes how the masks (see above) are applied. For example, suppose you have file C:\Folder\File.ext. If this option is ON, only the filename part File.ext will be checked against the masks. But if this option is OFF, the entire path C:\Folder\File.ext will be checked against the masks.
Save as default for future sessions	Changes to filter settings effect only the current session. If you would like your filter settings to be remembered across sessions (after restarting the application), then tick this option before saving the settings.

Press Save to save changes.

Filters menu is also accessible from the Add Folder window. For details see Adding items using the 'Add Folders' button section.

Export menu

When you click on the button, the following list pops up:

Export file paths and undo paths	Exports file paths and undo paths to the .csv (comma separated) or .txt (tab separated) file.
Export file paths and new names	Exports file paths and new names to the .csv (comma separated) or .txt (tab separated) file.
Import file paths and new names	Imports file paths and new names from the .csv (comma separated) or .txt (tab separated) file.
Import files from text-list or play-list	Imports file paths from the .txt/.log file (one file per line) or .m3u/.pls playlist. Note: It will load file paths into Files pane only if the file really exists on your file system.
Export as batch renaming file (Full paths)
Export as batch renaming file (Only names)
Export new names to clipboard	Export new names to clipboard. One name per line.
Import new names from clipboard	Imports new names from clipboard. Every name should be placed in a new line. If there is less lines in the clipboard text than files in Files pane last files won't be renamed. If there is more lines in the clipboard text than files in Files pane, then last lines won't be used.
Export all columns to clipboard	Exports all columns to clipboard as a tab separated text.

Options menu

When you click on the button, the following list pops up:

Autosize columns	Auto-size all columns, to accommodate the longest entry in each column.
Validate new names	Check if the new names are valid.
Fix conflicting new names	Add incremental numbers as suffixes to avoid conflicts in names. For example, if a new name for a file is Name1, and if such a file already exists in the target folder, then a suffix (2) is added to the newly renamed file. If more than one files have such name conflicts, ReNamer uses incremental numbers (i.e. (2), (3)...) as suffixes to make sure that each file gets a unique name.
Highlight changed names	Usually you load files only because you want to change their names. Yet, sometimes, some files escape all the rules you have loaded and remain unchanged. In such cases, you may want to know why that happened. ReNamer can highlight files that are going to be changed. Now you can investigate the remaining files. Note: Highlight changed names option works as a switch: it turns highlighting ON and OFF. Tip: You can unmark the rules selectively and see the effect on the files. That will tell you which rules are working on which files. Once your analysis is over, you can mark all rules.
Analyze sample text	It opens the Analyze window. Thanks to that option you don't have to load files to the Files pane just to check if your rules work as desired. It is extremally useful when you want to help others on the forum. Enter any text that looks like your target files, and see whether the rules work as desired on that text. Edit the rules if the desired result is not achieved Once you are satisfied with the rules, apply them on the real files or post the set of rules on the forum. Note: Analyze sample text won't be any help if the rules base on the files properties (and not only on the filename). Analyze tool won't be able eg. to extract Meta tag from the text in its window.
Apply rules to the clipboard	When you choose this option your rules will be applied to the text in clipboard instead of files in the Files pane. This might be useful eg. when working with word processors that don't support RegEx'es.
Count marked and selected files Alt+I	It pops up a window containing files statistics. Total stands for total number of files loaded into the Files pane. Marked and Selected stand for number of marked and selected files respectively.