Operational Guides
In-depth guides and reference material for features, tools, and specific renaming scenarios.
Using presets
A preset is a named collection of rules that can be saved and reloaded on demand. Presets can als...
Presets Manager
The Presets Manager provides options for managing your collection of presets, including loading, ...
Analyze tool
The Analyze tool opens a window where you can enter arbitrary text and test your current rules ag...
Meta Tags
Meta Tags allow users to extract meta information associated with files and use it for renaming....
Date and Time format
Date and time format is used primarily in Meta Tags and the Pascal Script rule to format date and...
Sorting files
The order of items in the Files pane can affect the renaming outcome. This is most notable in two...
Renaming folders
By default, ReNamer is configured to rename files only. When a folder is added, it is scanned rec...
Moving files to another folder
ReNamer can move files and folders to a different location as part of the renaming process. You c...
Validation
Validation is a process that analyzes the list of files and their target destinations to identify...
Failed renaming
The renaming operation can fail for a variety of reasons. The built-in validation process attempt...
Manual editing
In addition to combining rules to generate new names automatically, you can also make manual chan...
Command line
ReNamer supports several command line parameters for launching the program with files pre-loaded,...
Long paths
Introduction The maximum length of paths and file/folder names is limited in every mainstream ope...
Wildcard masks
Wildcard masks (also called filename masks) are a simple pattern-matching syntax that uses specia...
Regular Expressions reference
Introduction Regular Expressions (RegEx) is a syntax for specifying patterns of text to search an...