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This help file contains topics about selected dialog boxes in your Ulead program. You can access these topics through those dialog boxes or by navigating through a main help file associated with the program.


AutoRename dialog box

Renames a set of files automatically and even renumbers their sequence based on the naming operations you specify.

  Files that will be renamed Lists the file names to be renamed.

  New Opens the AutoRename dialog box where you can specify different criteria for renaming files.

  Modify Allows you to adjust the naming options of a selected operation.

  Remove Removes one or more selected operations.

  Remove All Clears the operation list.

  Quick Rename Inserts the default naming operation into the list. This button is active only when the operation list is empty. By default, files will be prefixed using the first original file name in the "Before" list and they will be sequentially numbered starting from '001'.

  Load Opens a dialog box for loading previously saved renaming operations template file (*.aur).

  Save Saves the current set of operations to a template file (*.aur) for future use.

  OK Click to start the renaming process.

  Cancel Aborts the renaming process.


Batch Operation dialog box - Rename tab
Batch Operation dialog box
  Rename	  Replace
  Renumber	  Add
  Change Case	  Crop

Allows you to specify a consistent naming pattern for your file names and apply a numbering scheme. You can specify a new starting Prefix for your file names, an ending Suffix, or both. To sequentially number the files, enter the numeral you want to Start with and the number of Steps to increment by. You can also change the number of padded zeroes to insert.

For example, if you have vacation photos acquired from a digital camera, you can rename and renumber them with a pattern like this:

Before: "Img00008", "Img00009", . . . .

After: "MyVacation001", "MyVacation002", . . . .

Note:	You can only work on one criterion at a time. Click OK when you're done defining the settings for a tab to add it to the operation list in the AutoRename dialog box..


Batch Operation dialog box - Renumber tab
Batch Operation dialog box
  Rename	  Replace
  Renumber	  Add
  Change Case	  Crop

Allows you to change numerical values contained in file name(s). Enter the numeral you want to Start with and the number of Steps to increment by. You can also change the number of padded zeroes to insert. If file names consist of more than one set of numbers, choose which group you want the numbering pattern to change.

For example, if you choose to renumber 'group 2' starting from '010' and increment by '5', the results would be something like this:

Before: "Class99_Grad1", "Class99_Grad2", . . . .

After: "Class99_Grad010", "Class99_Grad015", . . . .

Notes:

  If a file name does not contain any numbers, the numeral will be appended at the end of the file name.

  You can only work on one criterion at a time. Click OK when you're done defining the settings for a tab to add it to the operation list in the AutoRename dialog box.


Batch Operation dialog box - Change Case tab
Batch Operation dialog box
  Rename	  Replace
  Renumber	  Add
  Change Case	  Crop

Allows you to automatically change the text format of the file name(s). This is useful if you plan to use the files in case sensitive file operation such as in some Web page projects.

Note:	You can only work on one criterion at a time. Click OK when you're done defining the settings for a tab to add it to the operation list in the AutoRename dialog box.


Batch Operation dialog box - Replace tab
Batch Operation dialog box
  Rename	  Replace
  Renumber	  Add
  Change Case	  Crop

Allows you to change a set of characters found in the file name(s). If a set of characters occurs more than once in the original file name, only the first set (from the left) will be replaced.

The example below shows file names which have the characters 'Img' and the new file names generated after replacing the characters with the word 'Wedding'.

Before: "Img001", "MyImg100", "Imgset01_Img100" . . . .

After: "Wedding001", "MyWedding100", "Weddingset01_Img100" . . . .

Note:	You can only work on one criterion at a time. Click OK when you're done defining the settings for a tab to add it to the operation list in the AutoRename dialog box.


Batch Operation dialog box - Add tab
Batch Operation dialog box
  Rename	  Replace
  Renumber	  Add
  Change Case	  Crop

Allows you to add some text before, after, or anywhere within the file name(s).

For example, if you want to insert 'My' at the beginning of the file names, you will get the following results:

Before: "File001", "File100", . . . .

After: "MyFile001", "MyFile100", . . . .

Note:	You can only work on one criterion at a time. Click OK when you're done defining the settings for a tab to add it to the operation list in the AutoRename dialog box.


Batch Operation dialog box - Crop tab
Batch Operation dialog box
  Rename	  Replace
  Renumber	  Add
  Change Case	  Crop

Allows you to reduce the total number of characters of the file name(s).

For example, if you remove 2 characters after the 6th position, you will get the following results:

Before: "Summer98 Sports", "Winter99 Sports", . . . .

After: "Summer Sports", "Winter Sports", . . . .

If you remove the last seven characters, you will get the following new file names:

Before: "Summer98 Sports", "Winter99 Sports", . . . .

After: "Summer98", "Winter99", . . . .

Note:	You can only work on one criterion at a time. Click OK when you're done defining the settings for a tab to add it to the operation list in the AutoRename dialog box.