I have a case involving several thousand pdf, doc, and jpg files that all need to be marked "attorney eyes only" or similar. I am looking for recommendations on solutions that are currently being used that are efficient and cost effective.
Any and all recommendations are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Dan
Would renaming the files with an appropriate prefix or suffix suffice?
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Paul
Easy to do by creating a Window's Batch file or Applescript.
Mike, not a lot of people know how to make batch files or scripts.
Do you have the coding for a batch file he could use to cut and paste?
Easy to do by creating a Window's Batch file or Applescript.
I usually do not rename files.
The problem with renaming them is you lose some possible information in renaming. With so few files mrgreen I simply use Excel, and "insert" extra text. Such as<original file name>.my-special-note.<original extension>
Do a dir /B /S > mylistoffiles.txt at a DOS prompt.
This will create a file named mylistoffiles.txt where ever you ran it.
Then open it up in Excel, and have at it. idea left(), right(), concatenate(), append(), replace() and such are all your friend.
once you get the result as you like it in a column, make a new column that makes a text such as
REN <original file name> <new file name>
done.
Quick, dirty. Works.
Mike, not a lot of people know how to make batch files or scripts.
Do you have the coding for a batch file he could use to cut and paste?
Easy to do by creating a Window's Batch file or Applescript.
Quick and dirty
1 Create a folder and move all the files to be renamed into it.
2 Create a new text file in the same folder.
3 Enter something similar to "ren *.jpg PrefixYouWant*.jpg" w/o quotes.
4 Save the text file and then rename it to have a .bat extension.
5 Double click on the .bat file to rename the files.