XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, rec.photo.digital   
   From: arlen_holder@newmachines.com   
      
   On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:51:28 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Hi Herbert Kleebauer,   
      
   Thank you for assessing the script, where I fully agree that it's only   
   random as much as running pseudo @rand 3 times will make it so. Agreed.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I had forgotten about that feature of Windows, so again, I thank you for   
   remaining me, and the others on this newsgroup of the context sensitive   
   rename menu item.   
      
   I just tested it, by the following process, which worked just fine:   
   a. I selected 75 photos in the Windows explorer   
   b. I right clicked on one, and selected rename & typed "a"   
   c. It renamed them successively from "a(1).jpg" to "a(75).jpg"   
      
   In addition, while we're listing batch renaming capabilities, Irfanview   
   freeware has batch renaming capabilities based on regular expressions:   
   o Irfanview Batch Rename   
      
   --   
   While none are truly random neither Irfanview nor rename seem to be random.   
      
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