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Rename Files Efficiently Using FileForge

This tutorial will guide you through renaming files using FileForge. You will learn how to customize file names for better organization and searchability.

1. Access Rename Files Function

To begin this process, the first thing you want to do is make sure you are on the Organize tab. From there, you'll be able to see the Rename Files function. Let's go ahead and click on that. Anytime that you select the Rename File function, you will have the ability to put in custom instructions for how you want your files to be renamed.

Access Rename Files Function

2. Prepare to Run Rename Process

In this example, I will provide some instructions of how I want my files to be personally renamed that will make it easy for me to search for them but also easy for an AI system to understand what the images are.

Prepare to Run Rename Process

3. Set Rename Goal and Execute

Now before we run this, let's take a look at what the file names currently look like. If I select my folder and open it, I can see that some files have readable names, but many have generic names or contain a series of characters and numbers. So the goal with this is to let the FileForge system go through and rename these files to something human readable and AI readable. I'll close these windows out and run this prompt.

Set Rename Goal and Execute

4. Preview Rename Action

Similar to any action within FileForge, it will give you a preview of what it's going to do before it executes that action. So in this example it's going to translate our files with a readable creation date as well as a three word description of what that file is. This looks great to me, so let's go ahead and proceed. The system will work through that, and then once it's successfully completed, it lets me know that it renamed all 10 of my files within that folder.

Preview Rename Action

5. Review Folder After Rename

Perfect, the renaming is complete, so we can close this out, and then let's go ahead and re-review that folder to see how it did.

Review Folder After Rename

6. Check Renamed File Format

Wonderful. So all of those files now follow that format of date created as well as the description. Something that was previously very generic is now transformed into a detailed description of the image I can now tell that this image is of a rubber duck from the File name and it even provides me a color of the image.

Check Renamed File Format
You have successfully renamed your files using FileForge, making them both human and AI readable.
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