XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, rec.photo.digital   
   From: sc@tom.net   
      
   "Herbert Kleebauer"  wrote in message   
   news:rjqreg$1027$1@gioia.aioe.org...   
   > 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.   
      
   That doesn't seem to work in Explorer for me. If I select a number of files   
   and click "rename" (right-click, rename), it only renames one file. Maybe   
   because I use StartIsBack?   
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