Batch renaming?

[BalSanghera]

Had a couple of memories card with about 400 images each which I moved to a folder on my PC and whilst I was in the other room my little cousin managed to rename all the files to
asf.jpg
asf (1).jpg
asf (2).jpg and so on... :bang:

tried to undo rename but was greyed out. So I thought well its not too much of an issue because atleast the files will still be in the right order... Wrong :bang: all in random order so I cant arrange by name.

Its ok if I arrange by date taken because exif is still there. Is there a way to batch rename them all quickly and getting them back in the correct order? Because if I burn to cd etc it normally plays by file name order.

Oh and I cut and pasted from mem card so no longer got them on there. Also there appears to be some duplicates so god knows what he did lol.

 

[Paul MR]

Have a look at the metadata and see if the original filename is still embedded, if so a Bridge/Photoshop script could rename them back to the original filename.

 

[swanseamale47]

In windows you should be able to sort by time taken, then just select all and rename the first one, the rest will follow like you have now.

 

[BalSanghera]

Used something called Namexif which sorted it by date time tag so
2010-07-07 09.25.00 Set Name

 

[Darthchaffinch]

Used something called Namexif which sorted it by date time tag so
2010-07-07 09.25.00 Set Name

thanks soooooooooo much for this post buddy!!!!!