renaming files with GUI

[pedroparamo]

Is it possible to rename files using exiftool GUI to something such as '10282013-1,10282013-2,' etc. with no date or time appended to filename?

Great products--both GUI and exiftool!

Pedro

[Phil Harvey]

Looking at the GUI documentation, it appears there is no facility to do this.  So you would have to resort to using the "ExifTool direct" feature, and an argument something like "-filename=10282013-%.nc.%e".  I can't try this, but I think it could work.

- Phil

[pedroparamo]

"-filename=10282013-%.nc.%e" does work in the 'ExifTool direct' feature but I got the error "Access violation at address 0065c044 in module "ExifToolGUI.exe".  Read of address 00000000." when I did a test.  Should I be  concerned with this?

Thanks.

Pedro

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Pedro,

I don't know what this error indicates.  Try searching for "access violation" in this forum.

- Phil

[pedroparamo]

Let me try this another way--

Would the correct (batch) command in the command line be

exiftool -filename=11282013-%.nc.%e test

where test is a folder on my Desktop and I wanted to rename every file in the 'test' dir?

Thanks.

Pedro

[Phil Harvey]

Yes, provided that the current working directory is your desktop when you run the command.

If not, you can drag and drop the folder onto the command window to type the full directory name for you.

- Phil

[pedroparamo]

actually my current working directory when I run the command is

c:\exiftoolgui

Pedro