Wednesday, December 20, 2006

RENAMING ALL FILES-FOLDERS IN A DIRECORY AT A TIME

Without using any software it's easy to rename all files in a folder and get them in a sequence. Following trick helps
Select all the files in a folder (by selecting a file and pressing Ctrl+A), then right click on any file and select Rename. And rename the file (the file on which u did right click) by pressing Alt+255. then press enter. All other files-folder selected will be automatically renamed to (2), (3), ..and so on. But u'll see that the file which u selected for rename has no visible name-rename it to 1 we also get an extra set of parenthesis in this case not exactly (2) instead of 2 as new name. Also if instead of Alt+255 we rename to satya (any name) all files will be named like satya,satya(1),satya(2)...so on.Alt+255 is a way to rename a folder to no name.select a folder and press F2 to rename, then press backspace to clear old name and then press Alt+255 (holding one Alt key press 2 then 5 then 5) then press enter to have that folder with blank name.THIS TRICK WILL BE HELPFULL IF U NEED TO INDEX YOUR FILES OR FOLDER IN A DIRECTORY TO UPLOAD TO WEB OR FOR BETTER SEARCH INDEXING.

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