Renaming zip files

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Hi guys,
1/ is there any way to rename zip file by adding a number of files included?
eg file examplepack.zip contains 50 files, and I want to change the name of this file into examplepack_50.zip

2/ is there any way to alter the names of files within the zip by adding a zip name to it?
eg file examplepack.zip contains 50 files 0001-0050, I want to rename this file to: examplepack_0001, examplepack_0002, etc

thanks for any help

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It could be done using a rename script. There isn't a simple built-in way to do that.

The {parent} code in the Rename dialog will insert the name of the parent folder, which also works with zip files.

For renaming lots of files within a Zip archive, it may be a lot quicker to extract the archive, rename everything, then re-zip it.

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Thanks Leo,

It could be done using a rename script. There isn't a simple built-in way to do that.

Clear, I though there might be a solution like the tag ExifTool:Warning which works in Advanced Renamer.

The {parent} code in the Rename dialog will insert the name of the parent folder, which also works with zip files.

For renaming lots of files within a Zip archive, it may be a lot quicker to extract the archive, rename everything, then re-zip it.

the problem is i have a lot of archives, so need to check what would be quicker solution, but thanks for your tip anyway.

Aah, I've just realize that above works when I am inside the archive. This is obvious :slight_smile: I am looking for the kind of a batch process, when I can select bunch of archives and make this renaming from parent level

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You could use Tools > Find Files to get a list of all the files in all the archives, then batch rename them. I suspect the renaming part will be really slow, though, since it'll update each archive once for each file (not just once for the whole archive), unfortunately.

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clear. Thanks for your efforts anyway

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That's how I would do it anyway to avoid corrupted archives.

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