# Any way to have explorer like multiple file renaming?

**URL:** <https://resource.dopus.com/t/any-way-to-have-explorer-like-multiple-file-renaming/10278>\
**Category:** Help & Support\
**Created:** [January 10, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/any-way-to-have-explorer-like-multiple-file-renaming/10278 "2011-01-10T04:03:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![paws](https://resource.dopus.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dfb087/32.png) [@paws](https://resource.dopus.com/u/paws)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/any-way-to-have-explorer-like-multiple-file-renaming/10278/1 "2011-01-10T04:03:37Z")

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Basically - I need to be able to highlight several files, and just do what it does in explorer - right click, rename, and then it auto-renames the files with (1) or (2), onward....I don't always need the powerful renaming. Is there any way to re-enable or find that functionality in Directory Opus?

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**Author:** ![aussieboykie](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/aussieboykie/32/23729_2.png) [@aussieboykie](https://resource.dopus.com/u/aussieboykie)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/any-way-to-have-explorer-like-multiple-file-renaming/10278/2 "2011-01-10T04:52:54Z")

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Have a look at [this thread](https://resource.dopus.com/t/advanced-rename-button-capitalise-number-formats/7427/1) in Buttons and Toolbars.

Regards, AB

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**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 7:05am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/any-way-to-have-explorer-like-multiple-file-renaming/10278/3 "2011-01-10T07:05:37Z")

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This command is probably the kind of thing you want:

```auto
Rename AUTORENAME REGEXP PATTERN=".*(\.[^.]+)" TO="{dlgstring|Enter new name:}\1"
```

It will ask you for a name and then change all selected files to use that name, preserving their current extensions and automatically adding a number to the name to make each file unique.

You can put it on a context menu, button or hotkey as desired.

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**Author:** ![Jon](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/jon/32/12713_2.png) [@Jon](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Jon)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/any-way-to-have-explorer-like-multiple-file-renaming/10278/4 "2018-11-27T01:54:58Z")

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In the next update (12.10.3) we'll add an option to make Opus work the same way as Explorer in this respect (without needing a script).