If you miss some features don't hesitate to let me know how I can improve it. If you like the app, please leave positive reviews. The app is intuitively simple, blazingly fast, and supports all major platforms: Windows, Mac, and Linux. Is there any way to achieve shortening filenames while retaining important information? any solutions to achieving this would be appreciated. Batch file renamer that renames many files in a click.

My intention was to originally use winscp to batch rename but lm not sure of the syntax, so my next idea is to download them to the rood of my C: drive and batch rename from there.īasically l wish to shorten the filenames rather than completely rename, currently the filenames have a unique 5 character alphanumeric prefix followed by the rest of the filename and extension eg SW854-filename.ext, l wish to retain part of the file name so l can still reference the files to my database and keep within windows filesystem limitations essentially l wish to output something like this SW854.ext especially seeing as l plan to move to an external drive once lm done processing the files. Basically l have over 50 files that lm unable to download to the location l wish to on my laptop (each file is about a gig), however their filenames are quite long which leads me to the 255 character limit.

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