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To open the Rename dialog, select “Batch file renaming…” from the Tools
menu.
This is the first page of the dialog, where you define which files to rename.
• The first step is to define the folder in which the files to rename are located.
This is the top item in the dialog where you can type in a location or navigate to the desired
folder.
The rest of this dialog page contains the following items:
Option Description
Scan subfolders If this item is checked, the scan will include any subfolders in the se-
lected folder.
Rename all files This will apply the renaming to all files in the folder.
Only rename files
with this extension
This allows you to limit the renaming to files with a specific extension,
which is entered in the text field.
Only rename
files with
specific names
This allows you to set up specific text rules for which files to rename. If
you check this you can type in a text string in the lower text field.
Above the text field you can open a pop-up menu containing four options
which will govern how files are selected/excluded according to the text
string you entered:
• File name must contain this text…
• File name must NOT contain this text…
• File name must contain this regular expression…
• File name must NOT contain this regular expression… (See “About reg-
ular expressions” on page 321.)
Skip read-only files This will skip any read-only text files in the selected folder.
Set new
extension
As certain file formats have several possible file extensions (e.g. .aif or
.snd) you can choose to change it so that all files use the same extension.