knightCrawler Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 I just found a 6,000+ Nintendo DS rom pack but I need to rename since they all have numbers in front of rom name exp. 0001-Mario, so I was thinking is there a mass file renames where I can remove those numbers in front of roms? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 I used Bulk Rename Utility to change the name of the folders they are all in and take out the numbers and then in LB I used the use folder name option during the import. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 You could always use the Windows search features to find just the roms extensions and then copy all of them out of the folders and do the same to the ROMs and jettison the folders all together if you wanted to edit the ROM names and not the folder names 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 I second bulk rename utility, you can just tell it to take off a certain number of characters at the beginning or end of a file name, and you can do that to a whole folder in one go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightCrawler Posted June 4, 2017 Author Share Posted June 4, 2017 3 hours ago, neil9000 said: I second bulk rename utility, you can just tell it to take off a certain number of characters at the beginning or end of a file name, and you can do that to a whole folder in one go. How do I get it? I I guess If I want to rename 0 to 99 I have to tell software to remove 2 characters but once I get into the 100's I have to tell the software to remove 3 characters!!! The roms are not in different folder and they all have the same extension so removing by extention will not work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 It's been a long time since i had to do it, but i remember doing it all in one go with the DS roms. You could always do the remove two to get rid of 1-99, then remove one on those files again to remove 100-999 then remove one again to do 1000-9999. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 There is also a preview window that will show what the file-names will look like so you can double check before confirming the edit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightCrawler Posted June 4, 2017 Author Share Posted June 4, 2017 3 hours ago, neil9000 said: There is also a preview window that will show what the file-names will look like so you can double check before confirming the edit. Sounds great but where do I get the software? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightCrawler Posted June 4, 2017 Author Share Posted June 4, 2017 I download but it will take me some time to understand the program options is quite extensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syntax_X Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 (edited) +6000 DS roms with dodgy names? Id at least try to use CLRmamepro with a valid .dat on as many roms as I could. Your going to get a headache scrolling thru that collection lol. http://datomatic.no-intro.org/?page=downloadhttps://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/ Edited June 4, 2017 by syntax_X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJQuad Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I made a batch file for this. NotePad++ helps a lot for this type of thing. nonumbers.bat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syntax_X Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 That batch file only has 159 lines and there is no way of telling if his games are named the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJQuad Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I know. You start by doing a "dir > dir.txt" in the directory and load it into NotePad++. From there just use macros, column mode editing, and search and replace. Creating that file took under 10 minutes. @knightCrawler if that's over your head just attach your dir.txt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syntax_X Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 Just making sure that it wasn't going to be run. If its an example its best to put it in text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilkster1 Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 try Krojam Soft Batch Rename program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan.F Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Hey there KnightCrawler! I personally use BatchRenameFiles Tool to bulk rename my files, I highly recommend it as it does the job fast and it gets it done right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustyzr Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 THAAAAANKS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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