KRename 3.0.13 review

Krename is a powerful batch renamer for KDE

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: KRename Team

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Krename is a powerful batch renamer for KDE. KRename project allows you to easily rename hundreds or even more files in one go.

The filenames can be created by parts of the original filename, numbering the files or accessing hundreds of informations about the file, like creation date or Exif informations of an image.

Here are some key features of "KRename":
General Features:

renaming of single files
renaming of complete directories
recursive directory scanning with Wildcards (e.g. *.mp3)
renaming of directory names
renaming of huge numbers of files (more than 10.000)
renaming of filename and extension
expandable by the use of a open plugin architecture
Konqueror integration
Krusader integration
International: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, Chinese
Preview for all image formats supported by KDE and some other file formats
Two easy to use GUI modes (tabbed and wizard like)

Possible actions:

rename files
copy files
move files
Undo Renaming (via BASH Script)
create shortcuts
overwrite files

Rename Features:

change order of files
sort files in directories
search and replace parts of filename (multiple)
search and replace using regular expressions
manual modifying of the resulting filename
change filesname or extension in:
lower case (e.g. krename.png)
caps (e.g. KRENAME.PNG)
first character in word to caps (e.g. Krename.png)
numbering of files (start,steps,skips definable)
add the current Date and time to a filename
using substrings of the old filename
create subdirectories while renaming

KDE Plugins

MP3-Info
XBM-Info
DEB Stats
AU-Info
PDF-Info
RPM Stats
Truevision Targa Info
JPEG-EXIF-Info
Catalogue-Information
Font-Information
BMP-Info
WAV-Info
PostScript-Info
vCard-Info
C++-Header-Info
E-Mail Info
Diff-Statistics
C++-Info
AVI-Info
TIFF Dateien Metainformation
Berechtigungen
PNG-Info
ICO-Info
OGG-Info
... and a lot more plugins

What's New in This Release:
A new Turkish translation was added and most importantly the encoding plugin is now finally working.
Additionally the speed with plugins could be improved and a commandline option was added to specify the number of preview items to show.