Find and rename from clipboard

[eswul62]

Advanced rename (Shift-F2) offers a box at top and bottom

My wish is to be able to paste source file names into the box at the top
to be renamed to the files names that are pasted in the box at the bottom.

so Everything would search for files (optionally with folder names, i.e. full path) in top box and rename them into the new names in bottom box.

So...

fm: d:\temp\folder1\folder2\folder3\file name.txt
to: d:\temp\folder1\folder2\folder3\new file name.txt

note, each time the folder path can be different, i.e. it can be just upto folder3 but also upto folder4 or folder5

have not yet found a renamer that can do this.
it involves many files.

[NotNull]

Not with Everything.

Do a web-search for

Rename files from an input text-file list

and you will find a multitude of options.

[eswul62]

Before posting I tried and most solutions are based on scripts.
Not a Windows tool. Not familiar with scripts.
I also checked BRU but I am afraid I could not find a solution there either.
(May be overlooking it though)

[NotNull]

The first 2 rename utilities that cameto my mind. I assume there are more with this feature:

Advanced Renamer: https://www.advancedrenamer.com/user_gu ... ethod_list
Bulk Rename Utility: https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/#features (Advanced feature)


Many file managers do have rename-by-list feature too.

[eswul62]

Thanks again.
I have finally ... after a day of puzzling, checking Internet and so on, and so on been able to solve the matter.

In my case the problem is that the listing by the file manager was/is different from the text (new name) listing.

i.e. when renaming a file: 'name123.txt' becomes 'abcfile.txt' - when using clipboard as a source.

the listing weren't in sync. file manager list vs newfilenames.txt

I managed to do it like this:
I created a list from the file manager, pasted into Excel
then copied the new file names from the newfile.txt in Excel
using vlookup I could 'match' both listings: file manager (Opus) listing and the renamed file names listing, side by side.
copied the new files from Excel to clipboard and then had in Opus rename from clipboard.
That went fine.

Phew....!

Thanks again for thinking along for a solution, really appreciated!

[NotNull]

And thank you for sharing your solution!
I'm sure it will help others visiting this forum too.