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I have 500000 plus files in over 3000 directories and need to rename all folders called PHOTOS to Photos. I also need to Rename any Folders call Photos blah blah blah to be called just Photos. It needs to be recursive to crawl down through our convoluted file struct within a data dump drive z:
Any help appreciated
Jamie
Jinx
Posted 2014-04-22T07:35:11.083
Reputation: 71
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Here is a usefull script to rename your files under the z:/ drive:
Get-ChildItem Z:/ -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace 'PHOTOS', 'Photos'}
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Ob1lan
Posted 2014-04-22T07:35:11.083
Reputation: 1 596
Filtering the list before going to rename will wreak less havoc, take less resources, and run faster: Get-ChildItem M:/ -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.name -like "PHOTOS*"} | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.name -replace 'PHOTOS', 'Photos'} – Xalorous – 2015-11-05T00:42:27.820
since the user only wants to rename folders and not files, left of the pipe should read: get-childitem z:/ -Recurse -Directory – None – 2015-11-30T18:44:08.487
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Does it needs to be done with powershell ?
On windows, I use the GUI open-source tool called AntRenamer, which should work just fine for your needs.
Keep in mind that windows filesystems are case unsensitive, but case-preserving, you you will probably need to rename PHOTOS to something else like APHOTOS before renaming it to Photos. Otherwise, the system will not detect the change, and refuse to rename it.
MayeulC
Posted 2014-04-22T07:35:11.083
Reputation: 133
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– Ob1lan – 2015-07-06T07:09:50.027
2Could be possible that you end up with directories with the same name? If so, should they be number/ignored/something else? – Mixxiphoid – 2014-04-22T08:37:46.027
Can you please share the code you've tried so we can see what you're trying to do? – Dave – 2014-04-22T10:15:24.703