Renaming lots of files.

[Charolotte Caxton]

Ok, so I want to rename a bunch of files. I highlighted all, renamed one and hit enter. That's pretty cool, now I have NEWNAME (1) - NEWNAME (1million).

That will be very useful. What I would really like to be able to do though, is put a certain character, such as a z or an * in front of all my files that I am trying to rename so that I don't change the name of all the files, I am just adding a character to them that will put them all in one clump when I view them alphabetically.

How do I do this?

[Rolig Loon]

I was tempted to say that you can only do it with a script, but I can't even think of a way that a script can do it.  I believe the answer is that you have to change every blinkin' one, one at a time, by hand.  Sorry. 

[Charolotte Caxton]

Aha! You are partly or totally correct, as I am not a scripter. I did find this download called Rename Master. It did the job splendidly and perfectly and it did it by script I think. It is free. Just google Rename Master if anyone is interested.