Re: Renaming files 1-99

Posted by Kyle E. Miller on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Re-Renaming-files-1-99-tp3700601p3700606.html

Dear Grant,

There is a program called "A better finder rename" that is very useful for
renaming files. Just google the name of the program to find the site to
download. It costs ~$20, but works very well on both macs and pcs.

Best,

Kyle

On 1/12/07 12:33 PM, "Daniel Glen" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> For another kludge, there was this posting in October:
> https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610&L=imagej&H=1&P=12039
>
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Jeff Hardin wrote:
>
>> Dear Grant,
>>
>> I had to write a plugin for this for Perkin-Elmer confocal stack
>> files. There's no other way I could figure out how to do this. I
>> should release this on the ImageJ web site, but need to clean it up
>> and comment the code. It involves (a) knowing your naming
>> structure; and (b) adding "0"s to pad the file name. The problem is
>> that where these zeroes have to go depends on the naming structure,
>> so there is no universal renamer that can realistically work.
>>
>> Hope that helps...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeff
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>> On Jan 4, 2007, at 11:00 PM, IMAGEJ automatic digest system wrote:
>>
>>> Date:    Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:38:15 -0800
>>> From:    "McAuley, Grant (LLU)" <[hidden email]>
>>> Subject: Raw Image Stacks: Image Ordering/Reordering
>>>
>>> Sorry if this has been asked before (searched list archives -
>>> maybe not right combination of words?).
>>>
>>> I need to import stacks of raw images using File->Import->Raw and
>>> selecting 'Open All Files in Folder'.  The images have filenames
>>> that contain letters and numbers: zz-1, zz-2, ... , zz-10,
>>> zz-11, ..., zz-48.
>>>
>>> When the stack gets created the order becomes: zz-1, zz-10,
>>> zz-11, ... , zz-2, zz-21, ... instead of what I want: zz-1,
>>> zz-2, ..., zz-10, zz-11, ...
>>>
>>> 1) Can I tell ImageJ to do a numeric instead of alpha sort on the
>>> filename numbers when the stack is created?
>>> 2) If not, is there a better way to resort the stack than the
>>> 'Stack Sorter' plugin (nice, but tedious for 48 images/stack)?
>
>

 
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