Question about Bulk Rename Utility

**Korly** · 30 Sep 2004, 11:34 PM

I downloaded and installed the program Regus was talking about in the freeware thread, but I'm not too clear on how to use it.

I have a folder full of PCEngine ROMS I want to put on my Xbox, but Xbox wont support long filenames. How can I use this program to shorten a bunch of filenames without doing each one manually?

**NightWolve** · 01 Oct 2004, 01:27 AM

Well, I got a quick way for you to do this if you're running WinXP.

Code:

for %%I in ( *.pce ) do ren "%%I" "%%~snxI.bak"
for %%I in ( *.bak ) do ren "%%I" "%%~nI"

Using notepad, make a file named rename.bat in the same folder as your roms (A whole copy of them preferably), add those 2 lines, save and then double click it in explorer. That'll rename all *.pce files to their unique short 8.3 DOS equivalent.

**Korly** · 01 Oct 2004, 11:28 AM

Yeah, about notepad...

What happens when it mysteriously disappears? How do I reinstall it?

**NightWolve** · 01 Oct 2004, 12:45 PM

I assume you're on XP then. You could install SP2, if not, I attached a copy for you. Just unzip and copy it to the windows folder. Also, if that don't work, get your Windows CD, copy NOTEPAD.EX_ from the I386 folder to the windows folder, open a dos prompt, cd to windows and run "expand notepad.ex_ notepad.exe"

I dunno what happened exactly, so in addition, I'd run a virus checker.

**NightWolve** · 05 Oct 2004, 04:50 PM

Did that work? Well, someone had asked me about doing the very same thing awhile back, so I made a Rename utility that should work on any Windows system. You place the exe in the same folder as the roms and run "dosrename *.pce" at the commandline.