Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Stephen Cormier wrote:
> On June 9, 2007 12:47:46 am H.S. wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers
> > (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by
> > dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files
> > automatically with a file pattern?
> >
> > This problem arose because I have a few hundred of images which are
> > jumbled up in time order. I have seen a friend do something similar in
> > XP's Windows Explorer. I am hoping it can be done in Linux too in some
> > way: order the image files by dragging them to their position in the
> > file browser and to run a script on the newly ordered files to rename
> > them numerically in that order.
>
> You might want to check krename you can select the files in konqueror right 
> click and under the actions menu use krename, it allows for regular 
> expressions when doing the renaming depending on how the files are now named 
> I'm not sure if it will totally do what you want but it is worth a try.

Last time I checked, it did not support reordering the files using drag 
and drop. It only supported up and down arrow keys; which can be quite a 
drag if I have many files!

->HS