FileRenamer

Change Log

On this page, you can find the history of changes made to the program FileRenamer.

• Unicode Update (2024-08-27): Consideration of changes in the Unicode standard, improved processing of some Unicode characters.
• New Language (2024-08-20): Türkçe (Turkish).
• Counting with Letters (2024-07-17): With the two new placeholders %alph-a% (lowercase letters) as well as %alph-A% (uppercase letters), you can now also count with lowercase respectively uppercase letters instead of numbers (placeholder %num%). Like the %num% placeholder, these two placeholders can also be used in all text fields of the FileRenamer and the settings under "Settings > Numbering" apply (for example, regarding the initial value, the increment and the fixed length). More about this in the tutorial on numbering files.
• Custom Fill Character for Numbering (2024-07-13): Under "Settings > Numbering" you can now define an arbitrary user-defined fill character for the numbering with a fixed character length of the numerical value. For example, the character "0" for formatting the numbers with leading zeros (this character was previously preset and could not be changed).
• New Options for Shortening the File Name to a maximum total Length (2024-07-03): In addition to cutting off the extra characters from the front or the back of the file name, characters can now also be removed from the middle of the file name to reach the defined maximum total length. Another new option now also allows the removed characters to be replaced with any other text (for example "..." or "_").
• New Option for Changing the File Date (2024-07-01): Time shift of the file date by a freely definable number of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years.
• Automatic Sorting (2024-06-03): In the sorting settings of the file list (context menu > Columns > Sorting) you can now define a column and a sorting direction according to which the files are automatically sorted after they are added.
• New Sorting Algorithm for the File List (2024-05-21): Random order. This makes it possible, for example, to randomly number files.
• Sorting Settings (2024-05-14): With the new sorting settings for the file list, you can now determine the sorting algorithm used (alphabetical sorting, natural sorting or system algorithm) as well as specify whether the upper and lower case writing should be ignored when sorting and whether the existing order of the other columns should be maintained. You can use this new function, for example, to number files or to use a text line by line for a series of file names in a specific order. You can find these new options by right-clicking on the file list under "Columns > Sorting".
• Multiple Replacements and Deletions (2024-03-17): The functions for replacing and deleting text in the file name and in the file extension can now also be used for multiple replacements and multiple deletions. The different texts can be separated with the character / for that (for example "a/b/c" to replace or delete "a", "b" and "c").
• Restructuring (2024-03-13): Reorganization of the areas "Delete Text" and "Truncate".
• New Options (2024-03-11): Truncate > Remove all Characters before/after a text.
• New Option (2024-03-10): Truncate > Remove Spaces from the Beginning and the End.
• New Column (2024-03-08): With the new column "Chang" you can show which files are affected by renamings and, for example, sort your file list accordingly. The column can be activated by right-clicking on the file list and selecting "Columns" from the menu.
• Inverse Filename Search (2024-03-07): Also the file name search can now be reversed. If you put a minus sign in front of your search term, all files that do not contain the search term will be found. If your search term starts with a minus sign, you can search for "/-word" to make the minus sign lose its meaning. If you only want to search for a minus sign itself, it is sufficient to search for "-" without "/". To exclude multiple search terms, you can write "-abc/def/ghi" (only finds filenames that do not contain "abc", "def" or "ghi").
• Text/Binary File Filter (2024-03-06): Performance improvements of the filters "Text Files Only" and "Binary Files Only".
• Empty File Names (2024-03-04): Improved handling of files with empty file names only consisting of a file extension.
• Filter for the File and Folder Search (2024-03-03): Multiple search terms for the name can now be defined by separating the individual search terms with the character / (for example "name1/name2"). Also multiple file extensions can now be separated with the same character (for example "ext1/ext2/ext3"). The character / has the advantage that it cannot appear in a file name itself and has no special meaning within the wildcard search or the search with regular expressions, so that this character can be used as a unique separator. With the new option "Total Text must match", the entire file name must match the specified text or regular expression to be found. If this option is disabled, the text or regular expression only needs to appear somewhere in the file name. The new option "Binary files only" can be used to limit the search to binary files.
• File List Import (2024-02-02): In addition to text files with line wise file paths, the file list import function now also accepts files in the formats CSV, TSV, XLSX, ODS, HTML and DIF. This makes it possible to reload the files from a file list saved in one of these formats, for example coming from the FilelistCreator.
• New Language (2024-01-17): Български (Bulgarian).
• Window Positioning (2023-12-27): With the new option "Settings > System Integration > Always on Top" you can keep the window of the FileRenamer permanently in the foreground above all other program windows.
• List Properties (2023-09-07): The dialog "List Properties" now shows the overview either grouped by file types or by file extensions. A new column "Percentage" has been added and the lists can now be copied to the clipboard as text, CSV or TSV using buttons.
• Parameters for the Numbering (2023-09-03): In the settings for the numbering, now you can also define decimal numbers (like 0.5) or fractions (like 1/3) as the starting value and the increment of the series of numbers. This allows you to give several files the same number.
• New Option for the Number Adjustment (2023-07-19): As part of the number adjustment, now, also a number of desired leading zeros can be defined, which is used for the adjusted numbers in the file name. If an increment of 0 is set, this option can also be used to change only the number of leading zeros of existing numbers in the filename without increasing or decreasing the number in question.
• File Date Changing Functions (2023-07-03): Bug fix regarding the file date calculation used in the functions for changing the dates of files. The bug only occured on Windows used in regions using time settings without daylight saving time (summer time / winter time).
• Position Storage (2023-06-09): Improved storage of the last window position in environments with more than one monitor.
• Size Storage (2023-06-06): Improved storage of the program window size, the column widths and the program layout under high DPI conditions.
• Number Adjustment (2023-03-03): With the new function "Changes > Name / Extension > Number Adjustment", an existing numbering of files as well as any other numbers in file names or file extensions can be increased or decreased by an arbitrary value. You can learn more about this feature in the tutorial about numbering files with the FileRenamer in the section "Change existing Numbering of Files".
• New Filter (2023-02-27): If you prefix the filter for the file extensions with a minus sign, only files with a different file extension than the specified one will be found. For example, the filter "-gif,bmp" in combination with the file type filter "Images" finds all images that have a format other than GIF or BMP.
• New Function of the File List (2023-02-26): Via the context menu of the file list (right mouse button) and the new menu item "List Properties", a summary overview of all files in the file list broken down by their format can be displayed.
• New Option for the File Numbering (2023-02-23): No increment of the numbering if there are files with the same name and/or the same root of the name in the file list one after the other.
• New Function of the File List (2023-01-24): Copy file paths to the clipboard (so far it was only possible to copy files into the clipboard).
• New Language (2023-01-19): Српски (Serbian).
• New Placeholders (2023-01-05): The new placeholders %name,wordX%, %name,wordexX%, %folderY,wordX% and %folderY,wordexX% make it possible to take only the Xth word from the file name respectively from the folder name of the folder number Y from the file path. With negative values for X or Y you can also count from above.
• New Placeholders (2022-12-16): With the new placeholders %folderX,Y,Z% and %folder-X,Y,Z% you can insert the characters Y to Z of the name of the Xth folder from the file path from below respectively from above.
• New Option for the File Numbering (2022-11-22): Reset Numbering of Files with every new Folder.
• New Filter (2022-11-02): With the new filter "File Type" you can now selectively add files of a specific file type to your file list for editing. Available are the file types audio files, videos, images, text files, documents, spreadsheets, websites, archives, executable files, source code files, fonts, playlists and other files that do not fit into one of the categories. A multiple selection is possible. To activate or deactivate all file types at once, you can open a corresponding context menu with the right mouse button. This can make a selection faster, since not every file type has to be clicked individually.
• Display of the Number of active Filters (2022-10-30): If at least one filter is activated for adding the files and folders, the number of active filters is now displayed on the button "Filter". With this, it can now be seen at a glance whether filters are active without having to open the filter dialog.
• Adjustments of the User Interface (2022-10-22): Adjustments of the program windows and dialogs for an improved display under high-dpi resolution conditions.
• Undo Function (2022-09-30): New function to undo the renaming (CTRL + Z).
• Sources (2022-09-03): With the help of the new function "Sources", you can, for example, write the lines of a text into the file names of a series of files or folders. You can find out more about this function in the introduction to the use of sources in the FileRenamer.
• Improved Help (2022-08-06): Actions with text fields in which placeholders can be used are now provided with a reference to the placeholders.
• System Integration (2022-07-31): Possibility to integrate the FileRenamer into the "Send to" context menu of the Windows Explorer in order to open files and folders in the program for renaming directly from the Explorer by right-click. You can find the option in the menu "Settings > System Integration > Context Menu".
• Multiple Selection of Changes (2021-12-06): With a right-click on the heading of a section, all actions of this section can now be activated or deactivated at once.
• Settings (2021-12-05): To reduce the size of the settings files, only those settings are stored, which deviate from the default settings.
• New Keyboard Shortcuts (2021-07-27): CTRL+O (Add files), CTRL+D (Add files/folders from folder), CTRL+E (Export file list), CTRL+I (Import file list), Shift+CTRL+W (Remove all files and folders from the file list), Shift+CTRL+S (Rename all files and folders from the file list) and ESC (Quit program).
• State Storage (2021-07-21): Storage of the state of the collapsible interface elements if the option "Save Window Size and Window Position" is enabled in the settings.
• New Placeholder (2021-06-13): The new placeholder %abs0num% stands for the position of the file within the file list with so many leading zeros that the resulting character length corresponds to the character length of the number of files (suitable for the placeholder %abs%).
• New Placeholders (2021-05-27): The new placeholders %date%, %time%, %dd.mm.yyyy%, %yyyy-mm-dd%, %hh-mm-ss% and %hh-mm% combine some of the existing placeholders for the current date and time so that they can be entered more quickly. The same placeholders are also available for the file dates using corresponding suffixes.
• New Program Version (2021-05-05): 64 bit version for Linux as Debian package, RPM package and portable binary.
• Language Detection (2021-05-03): Improvement of the automatic language detection of the system language when starting the program.
• RTL-GUI Optimization (2021-04-14): Optimization of the settings container, the dialogs and the general program layout for languages written from right to left.
• New Language (2021-04-12): اَلْعَرَبِيَّة (Arabic).
• Wildcard Search (2021-03-30): In addition to the search with regular expressions, the filter for the file name and the file extension now also supports simpler wildcard searches with * (any series of one or more characters or no character) and ? (single character).
• Remove nonexistent Files and Folders (2021-03-21): New option in the pop-up menu of the file list, which can check whether the files and folders in the file list still exist or, for example, have been deleted or moved after being added.
• Improved Help (2021-02-01): A readme file with instructions for running the program has been added to the ZIP archive for the macOS version.
• Search Folders (2021-01-19): Improved dialog control when adding files from multiple folders.
• Multiple selection of Folders (2021-01-14): In the dialog for adding folders and files from folders, with the CTRL key pressed, several folders can now be selected, searched and added at the same time.
• New Keyboard Shortcuts (2020-12-23): You can use DEL to delete all selected files, Shift + DEL to delete all files not selected and CTRL + DEL to remove all files from the file list.
• New Placeholders (2020-11-30): The new placeholders %0num%, %00num%, %000num%, %0000num% and %00000num% allow you to use the file number with one to five leading zeros.
• New Placeholders (2020-11-28): With the new placeholders %name,x,y% and %ext,x,y%, only parts of the old file name and the old file extension can be used as placeholders.
• Delete Characters (2020-11-27): Options for deleting characters from the file name depending on an optional starting position and an optional ending position.
• Delete Characters (2020-11-27): Options to delete double spaces, underscores and hyphens in the file name and the file extension.
• User Interface (2020-11-03): Bug fix regarding the appearance of checkboxes under Windows 7 in Classic Mode (black bars).
• Collapsible Area (2020-10-22): The area for the inclusion of files and folders can now be collapsed. This allows the program to be used better on smaller screens.
• Number of selected Changes (2020-10-21): The number of changes set is now displayed behind the heading of the associated section (name, extension, attributes). This means that you can immediately see where changes are chosen, even if the corresponding area is collapsed.
• Placeholders (2020-07-07): Placeholders from the placeholder list can now be copied to the clipboard by double-clicking on the corresponding row and thus used faster.
• New Language (2020-02-24): Polski (Polish).
• Date Change (2019-09-13): Via a new option, the creation date, the last change date and / or the date of the last access to a file can be set directly to the current date and time. In the Unix versions for macOS and Linux, it is now also possible to use the date of the last attribute change as new date.
• Hidden Extension (2019-09-09): In the version for macOS, the file attribute "Hidden Extension" can now be changed. This makes it possible to show or hide the extension of files.
• New Program Version (2019-08-25): 64 bit version for macOS.
• Export and Import of the File List (2019-07-31): The file list can now be exported as file. The exported file can be imported in this or other programs again.
• New Language (2019-07-10): 日本語 (Japanese).
• Rewrite (2019-05-02): Improvement of the function "Replace Diacritics" for Ä, Ö and Ü depending on the context.
• File Date Change (2019-02-28): This function can now set the file date (created, changed, last access) directly to the creation date, modification date, or last accessed date of the file.
• Custom Columns (2018-12-08): In the file list, now, custom columns can be defined by right-clicking or via the settings menu.
• File Selection (2018-12-04): Ability to edit only the currently selected files and folders from the list.
• New Language (2018-06-12): Italiano (Italian).
• Column Width (2018-04-12): The column width of the file list can now be saved in the settings.
• Status (2018-03-31): The status in the file list provides more detailed information now and can be filtered via the context menu (right click on the file list).
• Filter Change (2018-03-18): If the file filter is changed, it is now automatically checked whether the files already listed are still matching the filter. If not, the existing list can be kept or updated.
• New Placeholders (2018-02-17): In addition to the old placeholder %folderX% (level X), the placeholder %folder-X% (level -X) is now also available for the mask, so that the inserted folder level can now be counted from the top or from the bottom. More about this in the placeholders description.
• Saving of window position and window size (2018-02-10): Position and size of the program window can now be saved in the startup settings and setting profiles.
• High-DPI-Improvements (2017-12-06): Improvements of the graphical user interface and the icons for high dpi settings.
• Same-Named-Files (2017-10-20): New options for the case that multiple files or folders would get the same name after renaming (Settings > Numbering > Same-Named-Files). You can find an explanation of this function here.
• New Language (2017-09-25): Nederlands (Dutch).
• New Language (2017-08-11): Português do Brasil (Brazilian Portuguese).
• New Language (2017-03-23): Dansk (Danish).
• Sorting (2016-10-26): When sorting a column, the sorting order of the other columns will be kept now.
• New Operating System (2016-07-13): Release of the Linux version as Debian package, RPM package and binary.
• New Language (2016-05-29): Français (French).
• New Language (2016-05-27): Русский (Russian).
• New Operating System (2016-05-24): Release of the Mac OS X version.
• Placeholder for File Dates (2016-04-24): Adding placeholders for the date of the last modification, the last access and the creation of the file.
• Placeholder for Folder Names (2016-04-23): The new placeholders %dir1%, %dir2% ... %dir50% are standing for the folder names under the file.
• Columns (2016-03-05): You can now show or hide the columns File Extension, File Size, Date and Path from the settings.
• File Associations (2016-02-05): Settings (File Extension FRS, File Renamer Settings) can now be linked with the program out of the application - Info.
• New Language (2016-01-01): Español (Spanish).
• New Language (2015-12-06): 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
• Delete Character Groups (2015-11-27): Deletion of fixed characters of a defined group (digits, lowercase and/or uppercase latin, cyrillic or greek letters, lowercase or uppercase diacritica, spaces, special characters).
• New Function: Filter (2015-11-27): For searching and adding files, it is now possible to define a filter, for example for specific file extensions or file names.
• New Function: Change File Attributes (2015-11-27): Next to the file renaming, it is now also possible to change the attributes of files and folders (hidden, read only, date of last modification, date of last access and creation).
• New Options for Replacements (2015-11-26): Search and Replace now with or without matching the case and as regular expression.
• New Function: Append (2015-11-25): Append text at the front or at the back of file names or file extensions.
• New Function: Delete (2015-11-25): Delete text from file names or extensions.
• New Function: Insert (2015-11-25): Insert text at a defined position.
• New Constants for the Mask (2015-11-23): File Extension (%ext%) as well as the possibility to insert date and time with fixed length/leading zeros.
• New Settings for Numbering (2015-11-23): Initial Value, Increment, Number of leading Zeros. Examples and an explanation of these functions can be found here.
• New Function: Truncate (2015-11-21): Possibility to cut off a defined number of characters from the front or the back and/or to specify a maximum length for the file name or extension.
• New Function: Rewrite (2015-11-21): New options for rewriting file names (separate CamelCase, replace or remove diacritics, URL-Encode, URL-Decode).
• New Function: Common Replacements (2015-11-19): New options to directly apply common replacements (replace hyphens, underscores and/or dots by spaces or vice versa).
• Separation between Name and Extension (2015-11-17): Most options are now separated by file name and file extension so that it is now possible to change both parts of the file name individually.
• Preview for all Files (2015-11-15): The preview was moved from the bottom of the main window into the file list so that now a preview of all files at the same time is possible.
• New Function: Writing (2015-11-15): It is now possible to change the writing of files and folders (first letter uppercase, all uppercase or lowercase, random).
• New Function (2012-07-17): Up to now, you could only rename files with this tool. Now it is also possible to rename folders with the same functions like you can apply when renaming files.
• Extension of existing functions (2012-01-10): Added the placeholders %d%, %m% and %y% to the mask functionality to be able to write dates in file names.
• Improvement of existing function (2012-01-09): Bug fix for Windows 7 / Windows Vista and improvement of the user experience.

Note: Minor changes, such as updating an existing program translation or fixing a bug, are typically not included in this list. Therefore, if you find a newer version of the program in the download area than the most recent date in this list, we have typically made such a change to the program.