Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Bulk File Rename Of .*** to .zip or .mp3

Lets us say you have just download a new album or game
but all the files are .*** and you need them to be
zip's, rar's, mp3's etc.....

then do the following
*create a new folder
*put all the files needing editing in the new folder
*then goto "run" in the start menu
*type in CMD and click ok
*the next thing needsa few bits of old dos commands
*You need to navagate CMD to the folder where the files are
*you can do this by 1st getting the total adress of the folder
*and then typing it in cmd with a "cd" in frount


Eg: cd c:\xxx\yyy\ccc\
once you in the folder where the files are you can move on
nb u can cheek you in the right folder by typing dir to get a list of files

-now type in....
rename *.* *.zip

*Note: change the zip to what ever the extention needs to be (.rar, .mp3 ect)
all done
you should hv now changed the .* to what ever you needed
To exit CMD type in "exit"
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