Gillmeister Rename Expert

With Rename Expert you can quickly and easily rename files and folders. The program offers a variety of innovative features to create consistent and, above all, meaningful names. With a few simple clicks, you can number files and folders, shorten long file names, rename file extensions and much more.

Rename Expert supports metadata such as Exif, IPTC, and ID3. By using metadata, you can organize, sort, and rename files automatically. Despite its diversity of functions the program is very easy to use. With Rename Expert, meaningless file names are a thing of the past!

Key features

Simultaneously rename folders along with subfolders and files
Allows the batch renaming of any number of files and folders in one go (incl. network support)

Rename files using numerous metadata
Metadata (Exif, IPTC, ID3, etc.) can be used for the naming of files (e.g., for images and audio files).

Filter and sort functions
The extensive filter and sort functions can also be used for metadata, allowing the inclusion and exclusion of files and folders.

Numbering of folders and files
Files and folders can be numbered sequentially or in random order. An existing numbering can be easily overwritten or adjusted.

Use CSV files for naming
CSV files - for example, exported from Excel, can be used flexibly for naming files and folders. The old and new name can be composed of several columns.

Create file names automatically from file contents
With Rename Expert you can automatically generate file names from the file contents of documents (e.g., XML, HTML, or log files).

Move and rename files in one step
In addition to renaming, files can also be moved or copyied into subfolders whose naming is based on metadata (e.g., picture taken date, creation date, etc.).

Rename file extensions
With Rename Expert, file extensions can be arbitrarily changed (e.g., jpeg to jpg). They can be added or removed, and their case is individually customizable.

Many special functions
Rename Expert offers a variety of specialized functions, such as adding the checksum (MD5, SHA, CRC32) of the file contents to the file name, the encryption of folder and file names, or the possibility of adding random characters to file names as well as to rename files completely random.

Shorten long file names / Edit file paths with more than 260 characters
With Rename Expert you can rename files or folders that exceed a path length of 260 characters, and therefore can no longer be edited using Windows Explorer.

Real-time preview of the new file names
All changes are shown in real-time and are checked for errors (e.g., duplicate name) to avoid possible conflicts.

Save rename-settings as profile
Action lists allow a combination of any different number of actions and can be saved as profile for future reuse.

All features

Various renaming functions
• Replace, insert, move, swap, or remove name parts.
• File extensions can be changed, added or removed.
• Encryption of folder or file names.
• Use of hash values(MD5, SHA1, SHA256, CRC32) of the file content as part of the file name.
• Rename, add, remove, or change the case of file extensions.
• The upper and lower case of names or parts of names can be arbitrarily changed; in addition, the spelling can be specified in a list.
• Names of the parent folders can be used for naming.
• Folders and files can be numbered with many settings options.
• Rename file and folder names as specified in CSV files.
• Usage of file content of documents for file names.
• Use of random characters (uppercase characters, lowercase characters and/or digits) for file or folder names.
• Support for regular expressions.

Additional functions and features
• Renaming of folders along with subfolders and contained files in a single step.
• Command line support
• Detailed view displays file properties and metadata contained.
• Any criteria that can become part of the name, can be used as sorting criteria (e.g., metadata, file size, modification date ...).
• Extensive filtering options.
• Support for Unicode characters in file names/folder names.
• Moving/copying and renaming of files with full network support.
• Real-time preview and conflict testing.
• Reads files and folders with long paths (more than 260 characters).
• Drag & drop support.
• Renaming functions can be combined arbitrarily.
• All settings can be saved as a profile for reuse
• Previous names can be restored using Undo and Redo.
• Lots of templates (e.g., for creating web-safe names) are included.
• Lists with file and directory names can be imported and exported.
• When copying or moving files, subfolders can be created dynamically from file properties (e.g., creation date, the image width ...).

Support of numerous metadata
• Photo taken date.
• Exif data (camera manufacturer, camera model, photographer, description, commentary, image width/height, horizontal/vertical resolution, flash use).
• Image data (width/height, horizontal/vertical resolution, bit depth).
• Audio data (artist, album, title, year, comment, track, genre, bit rate, album artist, composer, disc number).
• IPTC data (country, country code, state, city, location, title, photographer, description, provider, source).
• PDF data (version, author, title, subject, keywords, creator, producer, page count).
• Video data if the plugin is installed (width, height, frame rate, standard, aspect ratio, audio codec, video codec, overall bitrate, video bitrate, audio bitrate, audio compression, duration, title).