Rename a folder of product photos to a pattern
A folder straight off a camera is DSC_4821.JPG through DSC_4863.JPG, and a bulk catalogue upload wants names that say which product and which shot. Renaming forty files by hand in a file manager is where the mistakes get made - two photos of the blue shirt filed under the green shirt's SKU, discovered a week later in a return.
Set a prefix, a running number and a suffix, and the first four results are shown old name beside new name before you commit to anything. Nothing is decoded or written again: the original bytes are copied into the ZIP under the new name, so a 12-megapixel photo comes out with every pixel it went in with.
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How it works
- Add the folder. Photos are numbered in the order they are added, which for a folder selected in one go is the order your operating system lists them in, normally alphabetical.
- Set the pattern. A prefix such as shirt-blue, a running number, and a suffix such as main. Any of the three can be left out, and the original name can be kept in the middle if you want to stay able to trace a file back.
- Choose the numbering. Start at whatever number you like, and pick the width: 1, 01, 001 or 0001. 001 is the default, and it is the one that still sorts correctly in a file manager once you pass nine files.
- Check the preview. The first four renames are listed old to new. If two files would end up with the same name you are warned, because a ZIP will happily hold both and whatever unpacks it keeps only one of them.
- Export. The renamed files come back as a ZIP named after your prefix. The files on your disk keep the names they had.
What it handles
- Prefix, original name, running number and suffix, joined by a hyphen, an underscore or nothing at all
- Numbering that starts where you tell it and pads to 1, 2, 3 or 4 digits
- A live preview of the first four renames, so the pattern is checked before it is applied to eighty files
- A warning when two files would collide on the same name
- Not one pixel decoded or re-encoded - the original file's bytes go into the ZIP unchanged
- Characters that Windows and macOS refuse in a file name are replaced with a hyphen, and long names are trimmed to 120 characters
- An extension override that relabels a file without converting it
Your files stay on your computer
This runs inside your browser tab. The file is read and written on your own device and is never uploaded — not the order PDF, not the customer names and addresses printed on it. There is no upload endpoint to send it to.
Questions
- Can it produce Amazon's filename convention, like B01ABCDEFG.MAIN.jpg?
- Only part of the way. Put the ASIN in the prefix and MAIN in the suffix and turn the running number off, but the separator choices are a hyphen, an underscore or nothing - there is no dot - so what you get is B01ABCDEFG-MAIN.jpg. Good for your own filing, not what that convention expects.
- Can I choose which photo becomes 001?
- Not directly. The numbering follows the order the files were added and there is no way to drag them into a different order. The way round it is to add the photos in the order you want them, a few at a time, instead of selecting the whole folder at once.
- Does renaming reduce the quality?
- No, and that is deliberate. Nothing is decoded or drawn - the file's bytes are copied straight into the ZIP under the new name. A renamed photo is byte for byte the photo you started with, which is not true of any other tool on this site.
- Does forcing .png convert my JPG into a PNG?
- No. It changes the label on the name and nothing else, and a file called .png that is really a JPEG will be refused by some uploaders and confuse others. The override is for tidying .JPEG into .jpg. To really change the format, use the convert tool.
- What happens to files that are already named correctly?
- They are renamed along with everything else, because the pattern is applied to the whole run. Leave them out with the x on their card if they should keep their names, and they stay out of the ZIP entirely.