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2. Navigate to the required folder and select the desired files.
3. PressClick OK.OK. The selected files are added to ReNamer'sthe Files pane.
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Adding items using the "Add Folders" button

1. To add all the files belonging to a folder, press the button. The window shown above pops up.
   • When you select a node in the tree, all its sub-nodes are automatically selected. In other words, when you select a folder, its subfolders are automatically selected.
   • By default, ReNamer adds all files from a folder, but not the folder itself. So if you want to rename the folder itself (and not its contents), then select this option using the Filter settings.
   • You can select any node from the tree. That means you can even select any/all drives on your computer!
   • You can select multiple nodes at a time, by pressing CTRL first and then cliking on different nodes of the tree. All those nodes will be added at one stroke.
2. If you want to add only certain items from the selected folder, set ReNamer's filters by clicking on the "Filter settings" button and then selecting different options. Depending on your selected options in this window, the Add folders window will add different items to ReNamer's Files pane.
   • You can also set the filters by clicking the "Filters" button, located above the Files pane.
3. Navigate to the desired folder and press the "Add Folders" button.

Adding files using the drag-and-dropAdd Folders dialog

1. Click the Add Folders button. The folder browse dialog appears.
   • You can select multiple folders by holding Ctrl and clicking each one.
2. By default, the contents of each selected folder are added, not the folder itself.
   • To change what gets added, such as including folder entries or limiting by file type, adjust the Filter settings before confirming.
3. Select the desired folders and click Add Folders to confirm.

Adding files using the Add Paths dialog

The Add Paths option in the main menu opens a dialog where file and folder paths can be entered or pasted directly as text.

Which items are added from each path follows the same Filter settings as the Add Folders dialog. Unlike the standard dialogs, Add Paths also supports the long path specification (\\?\), making it the appropriate method when working with paths that exceed the Windows 260-character limit. See Long paths for more information.

Adding files using drag and drop

Select the files in any application and drag-and-dropdrag them into ReNamer'sthe Files pane.

• To drag-and-drop, click on your file selection with the left mouse button (LMB). Without releasing the LMB, start moving the mouse. Now bring the mouse pointer over the ReNamer's Files pane, and then release the LMB.

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Adding files using thecopy copy-and-and paste method

Select the files in any application and press CTRL+Ctrl+C, to copy them into the clipboard. Nowthen switch to ReNamer and press SHIFT+CTRL+Ctrl+Shift+V.

Note that:that the paste shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+V, not the standard Ctrl+V, and the Files pane does not need to be focused for it to work.

Adding files by importing a list

The Export menu in the Files pane toolbar offers two options for loading files from a previously saved list:

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Removing files or folders from the pane

If you have added more files by mistake, you can remove them easily in just two steps:

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   • This only removes the files/folders from the ReNamer. It does not delete them from the disk.

Changing the order of files in the pane

Certain rules (e.g. the Serialize Rule) act on the list of the files in "top-to-bottom" order, as opposed to acting on each file independently. In such cases, each file gets its name based on its position in the list. For example, the Nth file in the list is named Track-N.mp3.

Normally, the files are listed in the order you added them to the pane, with the the most recently added files added to the bottom of the list. But you can change the position of the files in the list. Just click on the file and drag it to the new position.

You can also select multiple files and drag all of them as a group to the new position.

Sorting files in the files pane

You can sort files in the Files pane by any column with just a click on the column title. The little triangle will show up to indicate the order of sorting. For more information have a look at the full article on sorting files.

Selecting files

You can carry out various operations on selected files.

To select one or more files:

1. Click anywhere in the row except on the check box.
   • To select non-adjacent files, press CTRL and then click on individual rows.
   • To select files listed in adjacent rows, first click on the row at one end, then keep the SHIFT pressed down, and click on the row at the other end.
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Repeat of these actions on any item toggles its marked/unmarked status..

Note that the marked/unmarked status of a file has no relation with its selected/unselected status.