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Using KRename To Sort Pictures
KRename: The Free Batch Renamer

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3) KRename Examples

This chapter contains some examples for specific use cases of KRename, like the renaming of freshly, legaly, downloaded mp3 files or the renaming of your photo collection. You can try this examples at home and they surely will help you to better understand KRename. The headline of every block sais wether the example is for beginners or advanced mode or for both. The description is only for the building of the filename for the new files. I think adding the files correctly to KRename is easy enough so that it does not have to be described here again.

3.1) Sorting Picture Collection – Beginners Mode

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If you copy the images from your digital camera they have often ugly names like DFH0034.jpg. Maybe you want to give them a better name with KRename. We want the files to be named "NUMBER holiday CURRENTDATE.jpg" where number and currentdate get replaced. The screenshot shows how we have to set the different options. First we have to add the number at the beginning. Therefore we are setting prefix to "Number". Afterwards we are going to append todays date with setting suffix to "Date". Now we have to switch previous name to "Custom Name" and enter "holiday" text field. You might also want to increase number of digits to get "01" instead of plain "1" which looks better if you have more than 10 images. In advanced mode you would use "## holiday [date]" as template to achive the same

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Table of Contents:

1) Introduction
    1.1) What is KRename?
    1.2) How much does it cost?
    1.3) Where can I get it?
    1.4) I need help, whom can I ask?

2) Using KRename
    2.1) The First Start
    2.2) Adding Files
            2.2.1) File Previews
            2.2.2) Sorting Files
    2.3) Rename, Copy or Move?
    2.4) Plugins
    2.5) Building the filename
            2.5.1) Building the filename – Beginners Mode
            2.5.2) Building the filename – Advanced Mode
            2.5.3) Available tokens in KRename
            2.5.4) Advanced renaming features
            2.5.5) Date formatting
    2.6) Renaming Completed

3) Examples
     3.1) Sorting your picture collection – Beginners Mode
     3.2) Capitalizing some files – Beginners Mode
     3.3) Converting filenames to lower case – Advanced Mode
     3.4) Renaming your mp3 collection – Advanced Mode
     3.5) Replacing spaces with underscores – Advanced Mode

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