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   Message 41,892 of 42,547   
   Alan Baker to Herbert Kleebauer   
   Re: Batch file to uniquely nmame & rando   
   15 Sep 20 10:36:08   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, rec.photo.digital   
   From: notonyourlife@no.no.no.no   
      
   On 2020-09-15 9:51 a.m., Herbert Kleebauer wrote:   
   > 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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