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DaveWest

Member

Registered: 2021-03-23

Posts: 1

Reverse numbering

Hello there !

I have a series of files numbered from 0001 to 0100.
I want them to be re-numbered (re-named) from 0100 to 0001.

Help needed !

den4b

Administrator

From: den4b.com

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 3,374

Re: Reverse numbering

A general workflow for such tasks:

1. Add you files.

2. Sort by the Name column in reverse order.
   You may also want to enable the "natural sort order" option in the Settings, if you you don't get the right sorting order.

3. Strip the existing numbers.
   You could do that with the Strip or Regular Expressions rules, but it depends on your exact filenames.

4. Add new numbers using the Serialize rule.
   To avoid conflicts with existing filenames, you should either insert a dummy character (e.g. insert "_" prefix), or rename into a different folder (e.g. insert "Renamed\" prefix).

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