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Batch Rename

Renaming many files at once using a template built from metadata, sequence numbers and fixed text.

Measured in count

In depth

Batch renaming applied at ingest is what makes a naming convention practical, since doing it by hand is impossible at any scale. Templates typically draw the date from EXIF and add a sequence number, and the operation should be done once — renaming files already referenced by a catalogue risks breaking those links.

Examples in practice

Two thousand files are renamed from the camera's own numbering to a dated convention in a single operation.