XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, rec.photo.digital   
   From: klee@unibwm.de   
      
   On 15.09.2020 03:23, Arlen Holder wrote:   
      
    > SET NewName=!RANDOM!-!RANDOM!-!RANDOM!!Use!   
    > ECHO %%A/!NewName!>> %TranslationFile%   
    > RENAME "%%A" "!NewName!"   
      
   Just because you use %random% 3 times doesn't make it impossible to get   
   the same name twice. Hopefully you never write SW where live depends on.   
      
      
   > I use it when I take a bunch of screenshots over long periods of time, and   
   > edit them one by one, as needed, where the names aren't in the order of the   
   > screenshots anyway, and there are too many to rename manually, so I rename   
   > them randomly - which makes each one distinct.   
      
   This is much easier done with the GUI using explorer. Select all files   
   you want to rename and click "rename". If you display the files ordered   
   by date, then also the filenames have this order.   
      
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