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Unless you need to incorporate the rename into another script, you don’t need scripting to do this, the standard Batch Rename tool is more than capable!
The following is just the first method that I came up with… I am hoping to come up with a more elegant solution.
I tried to make it robust so that it would work with any combination of uppercase/lowercase patterns.
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Unless you need to incorporate the rename into another script, you don’t need scripting to do this, the standard Batch Rename tool is more than capable!
The following is just the first method that I came up with… I am hoping to come up with a more elegant solution.
I tried to make it robust so that it would work with any combination of uppercase/lowercase patterns.
Extending the previous method, this one adds an extra step to swap the order around from Surname Firstname to Firstname Surname.
NOTE: I have not made this workable with names such as McDonald Ronald, which would end up as Ronald Mcdonald so take care. Same goes for 3 word names, hyphenated names etc. You need to know your own data.
Scripts are more flexible and better suited to the task, so my preference is the Bridge script previously linked. I created the Batch Rename regex before creating the script.
The following example is only for 2 words (originally for simple name case), notice in the screenshot how the third word isn't in Title Case. You would need to change the regex for 3 or more words, and it would become even more unwieldy.
Current Filename Find:
(^\w)(?:.+?\s)(\w)(?:.+?$)
Current Filename Replace
$1$2
Intermediate String Substitution Find:
(^\w)(\w)(?:\w)(\w+)(?: )(\w)
Intermediate String Substitution Replace:
$1$3 $2
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