http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/rename-exif/2012-04-30T11:09:05-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2012-04-30T11:09:05-07:00John Reidhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4023487/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578116-move-files-with-rename-if-required/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578116 by <a href="/recipes/users/4023487/">John Reid</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/move/">move</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/rename/">rename</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>A python script that renames (moves) files to a destination directory. However it will not overwrite existing files. The script uses a renaming strategy where a count is incremented in order to avoid naming conflicts.</p> <p>Example usage::</p> <pre class="prettyprint"><code>mv-rename a.ext b.ext target-dir/ </code></pre> <p>would mv a.ext and b.ext into the target directory. If::</p> <pre class="prettyprint"><code>target-dir/a.ext target-dir/b.ext </code></pre> <p>already exist, the newly moved files would be named::</p> <pre class="prettyprint"><code>target-dir/a-&lt;N&gt;.ext target-dir/b-&lt;M&gt;.ext </code></pre> <p>where &lt;N&gt; and &lt;M&gt; are the lowest numbers such that there is no conflict.</p>

2010-08-01T21:39:54-07:00Stephen Chappellhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2608421/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577342-autorenamepy/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577342 by <a href="/recipes/users/2608421/">Stephen Chappell</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/rename/">rename</a>). </p> <p>A friend was trying to open files with Korean names and was finding that Windows 7 was giving him errors. There were well over 22,000 files to deal with, and he did not want to rename them all individually. As a result, this program was quickly written to help him in renaming his vast assortment of files and folders so that he could easily open them in his resource viewer application.</p>

2010-04-18T21:07:52-07:00Denis Barmenkovhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/57155/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577200-make-unique-file-name/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577200 by <a href="/recipes/users/57155/">Denis Barmenkov</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/name/">name</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/rename/">rename</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>Sometimes it is important to save data in the file but the file with the specified name already exists. This function creates a file name that is similar to the original by adding a unique numeric suffix. This avoids the renaming of existing files.</p>

2011-11-05T15:27:32-07:00ccpizzahttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4170754/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576811-rename-mp3-files-from-id3-tags-does-not-require-ex/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576811 by <a href="/recipes/users/4170754/">ccpizza</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/id3/">id3</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/mp3/">mp3</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/rename/">rename</a>). Revision 5. </p> <p>Rename MP3 files in the current folder according to ID3 tags. This is based on Ned Batchelder's id3reader class. I only added the code in the <code>__main__</code> method.</p> <ul> <li>When run without arguments, the script renames the files in the current folder. The directory can be specified explicitly as the first argument.</li> <li>The files do not need to necessarily have the <code>MP3</code> extension.</li> <li>To move the files to directories based on album name use the <code>-d</code> switch.</li> <li>Does not work with other file types, such as OGG, M4A, MP4, etc.</li> <li>This is a quick and dirty script that works for me most of the times. If you need more power, try mutagen, picard, mp3tag or something similar.</li> </ul>

2008-12-28T08:04:34-08:00mickey Hadickhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4168585/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576597-directory-walking-file-renamer/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576597 by <a href="/recipes/users/4168585/">mickey Hadick</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/directory/">directory</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/rename/">rename</a>). </p> <p>Walk through a list of directories and rename the files within those directories based on the directory name and an index value. Useful for managing photos when downloaded from a camera into directories based on the shooting date.</p>