Adobe Bridge Batch Rename Expression Help

[Thomas38809214vc8k]

Hi Everyone,

I have a PDF dataset that has a very strange name format I would like to change.

A broad example would  be:

test01move0 (Current format) ---> TEST_mv-1 (Desired format)

What I want the expression to do is:

Capitalise the first four letters (test)

Move the number to the back (01)

Change the word move to mv

Delete the 0 at the end

The word at the beginning can vary so if there is a way of capitalising it regardless of the word that would be ideal.

The underscore and hyphen I used in the example are also required.

I understood this is a lot to ask without a lot of context, so if there is any more information people need to tackle this I am happy to provide it.

Looking forward to hearing peoples thoughts.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

It would be helpful if you could provide more than one before/after filename example...

There are variations on the following, this was just the first thing that I knocked together, there might be better expressions:

Find:

(\D+)(.)(.)(.+)

Replace:

$1_mv-$3

Bridge Batch Rename screenshot:

EDIT:

I prefer this variation on the original Find regular expression:

(\D{1,4})(.)(.)(.+)

or

(\D{1,4})(\d)(\d)(.+)

[Stephen_A_Marsh · Accepted solution]

@Thomas38809214vc8k 

I just realised that you wanted to keep the 2-digit number sequence, which is good if you have more than 9 files to rename... For some reason I thought that you only wanted one.

To correct my previous Replace command to include 2-digits:

$1_mv-$2$3

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Or with a modified Find:

(\D{1,4})(.{2})(.+)

Or:

(\D{1,4})(\d{2})(.+)

And a new Replace:

$1_mv-$2

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

@Thomas38809214vc8k – Thanks for coming back and marking my answer as correct! I'm glad this was of help.

[Thomas38809214vc8k]

No problem, appreciate the quick response. 🙂