Renaming truncated filenames

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Hi guys,

I have an annoying problem which is not Opus related but one which Opus may be able to help me with.

Using 3ds Max, I have the option to "increment on save" which adds a revision number to the end of my 3ds Max scene. Occasionally the filenames get renamed during the save to the old 8.3 style. I have to manually rename these files at the end of each day, sometimes scores of files which is a real nightmare.

In the example below, file BB9F20~02.MAX should be BB3MM_VRM_174.max etc.

Listers for 3ds Max files are always sorted by date (descending).

Anyway, is there a way I could automate this renaming procedure...?

Regards

Roly

PS: I have reported this problem to Autodesk and posted it on several 3ds Max forums but I've had no feedback so far.

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Seems like a good fit for the Unique Number rename script.

At least in that screenshot, you'd want to sort by name rather than modified time in order to get the files numbered in the correct order.