Saving files on the cloud is no longer a choice, it has become an established way to store files and access them from any device. While the cloud repositories help us synchronize files from multiple devices, it has become a challenge for most people to organize and batch rename files online. Users are often clueless about how to fix the files’ naming complexity and access files faster anytime.
People are extremely lazy to set proper names of their files on their computers, tablets, and smartphones. They upload data online without putting things in order, which causes disorganization in the cloud.
It’s not easy to bulk rename files on Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Amazon S3, and other cloud storage accounts. If you’re facing a situation where your files are already on the cloud and the filenames are not properly set, there are limited options to rename files automatically.
One smart web-app to rename files at once is the Cloud File Renamer (CFR). The CFR comes in handy if you are a business user and the number of your files is big. It can handle files renaming on Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and Amazon S3. A non-business user can also use this service to mass rename their files.
Here is how it functions:
Create an Account
The website of Cloud File Renamer says it uses official APIs of the cloud service providers, and therefore, requires OAuth consent from the users to get access to the cloud data. The users are required to create an account using these options:
- Signup with Gmail
- Signup with Microsoft
- Signup with Email
The first 2 options are easy, quick, and secure.
Link Cloud Drive(s) to the Application
Once your account is created, you can link your Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or Amazon S3 buckets to the CFR. The application is able to see the files’ hashes only. It doesn’t store your passwords and data to its servers. After the cloud drives are added to the application, you can easily load files from any folder and start the Renaming operation.
The Actual Renaming Process
There are 12 Renaming Methods provided in the online renaming service. These are:
- New Name
- Replace Text
- Remove Text
- Trim Text
- Suffix
- Prefix
- Numbering
- Insert At
- Lower Case
- Upper Case
- Title Case
- Swap
You can apply one or more of these Renaming Rules and preview the filenames before actually changing the names.
