Bulk Renaming

Filestar has a powerful renaming system that allows you to control the filename for the produced files.

In the following examples let's assume that we are converting the file cat.jpg to a PNG image. The following path template will give us the filename cat.png:

<Filename>.<Extension>

Anything between < and > is a special tag that is replaced with a value. Between the tags, you can have any characters to form your path and filenames.

By specifying path templates you can create advanced renaming rules. Here's an example:

<Image.Location>\<Image.Year>-<Image.Month>-<Image.Day>\<Filename>.<Extension>
=> "New York\1982-07-17\Photo.jpg"

Supported Tags

Filename

Is replaced with the name of the original file excluding the extension.

Extension

Is replaced with the new extension.

Order

Some skills return more than one file (like splitting a document into images). The tag is replaced with the numeric index of the output file counted from 0. Formatting can be controlled with the Format argument.

<Filename>_<Order Format="D3">.<Extension> 
=> "Document_001.jpg", "Document_002.jpg"...

Page

Works the same way as the tag but the numeric index is counted from 1.

Guid

Is replaced with a new Guid.

ArchivePath

This tag is used when extracting files from an archive like a zip file to extract the files with the same folder structure as in the archive.

Md5

Is replaced with the Md5 hash of the file.

File

Is replaced with a file property.

<File.Created Format="yyyy-MM-dd">
<File.Modified Format="yyyy-MM-dd">

Image

Is replaced with image metadata.

<Image.Title>
<Image.Latitude>
<Image.Longitude>
<Image.Year>
<Image.Month>
<Image.Day>
<Image.Taken Format="yyyy-MM-dd">
<Image.Location>

Mp3

Is replaced with mp3 metadata.

<Mp3.Title>
<Mp3.Album>
<Mp3.Artist>
<Mp3.Track>
<Mp3.Subtitle>
<Mp3.Year>
<Mp3.Genre>
<Mp3.Composer>
<Mp3.Disc>

Tag

The tag is a special tag that can be used in combination with the "By Path" file selection method to submit a list of filenames through a CSV format.

Case.Lower

Method for lowercasing.

<Case.Lower><Filename></Case.Lower>

Case.Upper

Method for uppercasing.

<Case.Upper><Filename></Case.Upper>

Trim

Method for removing unwanted characters at the start or the end of a string.

<Trim Chars="_"><Filename></Trim>

Substring

Method for cutting out a piece of a string.

<Substring Index="0" Length="5"><Filename></Substring>

Replace

Method for replacing all occurrences of one string with another.

<Replace Old="x" New="y"><Filename></Replace>