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Rename pictures

IMG_4210.jpg says nothing. 2023-09-06_Baixa_001.jpg says when and where. Rename a whole trip by a template, and see every new name before one file changes.

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In the app: ? at the top right of the window, or F1, opens this page.

In the manager: F2 with several pictures chosen (with none chosen, all shown), or right-click a folder → Rename pictures…. F2 on one picture renames just that one, in place.

The Rename window

Rename pictures: the template {date}_{place}_{n} and eight photos with their new names
  1. New name. The template: words in braces are filled in for each picture, everything else stays as written. The extension is kept.
  2. The parts. Click one to put it in: date taken, time, place, country, camera, number, old name, folder.
  3. Ready-made. Templates to start from, each with what it makes of the first picture.
  4. Date. How dates are written: 2025-11-05, 20251105, 05.11.2025 or only the month.
  5. Number. Where it starts, how many digits, from 1 again each day, and in which order: date taken, name, or as shown.
  6. Every picture, its name now and the name it gets. A name that would be taken gets a number after it.
  7. Needs a look. Only the pictures something is missing for — no date taken, no place — with why.
  8. Rename. Every picture in its own folder. Ctrl+Z in the manager puts the old names back.

What can go in a name

PartBecomes
{date}The day it was taken, written as chosen under Date: 2023-09-06
{time}The time it was taken: 18-44-10
{place}The town it was taken in, from its GPS: Baixa
{country}The country, from its GPS: Portugal
{camera}The camera or phone: NIKON D610
{n}A number: 001, 002… in the order chosen
{name}Its name now, without the extension
{folder}The name of the folder it is in

When something is missing

A screenshot or a download has no date taken; a photo from a camera without GPS has no place. The window says how many lack something, and Needs a look shows them. Under When a picture has no date taken, Use the file's date takes the day it was last changed instead. A photo kept only in the cloud is not read — reading would download it — and keeps its name.

Also there: Extension in small letters — .JPG → .jpg.