Hello! I think the "bulk rename" feature (as in XFCE's Thunar) is very useful one, especially for large number of files which should be organised and named against some user criteria. Reproducible: Always
Could you please clarify how the feature should work (for those who never used Thunar)? There is also KRename, but it is not integrated into Dolphin.
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #1) > Could you please clarify how the feature should work (for those who never > used Thunar)? There is also KRename, but it is not integrated into Dolphin. Basically it works with user-set "format" for renaming, e.g. replacing the old file names with new ones , or adding numbering in file names. Detailed explanation here: http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/bulk-renamer/start Or similar concept here: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/06/nautilus-batch-rename-feature-coming-gnome-3-22
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Created attachment 104593 [details] multi rename from double commander
[N] and [E] are two tags, for name and extension, so current ones can be passed to new name so from bar.ext expression foo[N]new[E] will give foobarnew.ext Double Commander adds also letter case change option (under "No change" button).
+1 for this feature In addition to regex and other options there should also be an option to append or prepend characters to exisiting filenames. thank you.
There are more items that are only available via the context menu, e.g. "Open With...". If users are not able to open a context menu, maybe because their input devices does not support a second button, we should fix it on a higher level. Several applications use context menus extensively.
Ouch, wrong ticket, please ignore comment #7.
There's a patch for this! https://phabricator.kde.org/D10698
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+1 for something like Thunar's bulk rename. It's the best out there, and I've tried them all. Both powerful and intuitive and simple to use- a perfect fit for Plasma. If anyone wants to try it with plasma, you can add it to the right-click menu following the instructions here: https://cipricuslinux.blogspot.com/2016/10/kde-add-bulk-rename-in-dolphin.html Note you will have to create the kservices5 directory if it doesn't exist. Example usage- say I have a folder with a bunch of mp3s. There are a few problems with the naming- They all contain the (same) album name before the track title- I just want track title. They're all names in upper case - I want lower case with the correct capitalization where appropriate. -Select all the tracks in Dolphin, right click, select 'Bulk rename' from the menu. -Thunar displays a window showing all the selected files, their current name and name as it will appear after the selected option is applied. -I select 'remove characters' from the dropdown menu, then specify to remove characters 0-10 (the album name) from the left of the names and hit 'rename files'. -I select 'Uppercase/Lowercase' from the dropdown and select 'Title Case' and hit 'rename files'. -If I want to add numbering to the track names, I select 'Numbering,' choose my preferred options and click 'rename files.' I think this is something that would be great to have built into Dolphin, and maybe even improved a bit. It adds a lot of flexibility and power.
+1 for adding this to dolphin It is the best bulk renamig tool out there. I find it a bit excessive to have to install another file manager for such a small functionality. But since it has a very big impact, I sincerely ask the KDE developers to add this. It looks like there was an attempt before, but it looks orphaned: https://store.kde.org/p/1522350
If krename is installed, you can select some files in Dolphin then right click -> actions -> bulk rename with krename. It has every feature requested above and more.
Git commit 1886601aea5bd663fa8fd1b4901eb8b39c389eca by Méven Car. Committed on 16/06/2025 at 07:06. Pushed by meven into branch 'master'. RenameFileDialog: allow to rename by replacing text And display preview. M +4 -4 autotests/knewfilemenutest.cpp M +480 -91 src/widgets/renamefiledialog.cpp M +2 -1 src/widgets/renamefiledialog.h https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/commit/1886601aea5bd663fa8fd1b4901eb8b39c389eca
Hello, thanks for adding this feature to dolphin! However, it's still not possible to use regular expressions when bulk-renaming with the "replace text" option in dolphin. Can you please implement it, e.g. by adding a "Regular Expression" checkbox, like thunar has? Thanks!
There is a utility called krename that suits more advanced rename activity.
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #16) > There is a utility called krename that suits more advanced rename activity. I know of Krename, and I have been trying to use it. However, it's very sophisticated, (to me) unintuitive, and (as far as i know), whever i want to rename folders, it always imports the subfolders for renaming as well, even though i only selected the top-level ones. I am not asking for the full feature set of Krename, but simple regex replace when renaming in dolphin (even if it would require me to do 2-3 passes) would be a big improvement over having to fight with Krename every time.