Felix K Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Hey Guys, I was wondering if there is a way to generate random file names when Batch Processing images. Greetings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted February 3, 2020 Staff Share Posted February 3, 2020 Hi Felix K, There is no way to do this I'm afraid. Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- S - Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 I'm not sure what your use case is, however if what you want to do is just rename all the photos in a folder with random names, you could rename the files using PowerShell. The below script will rename all .tif and .tiff files that are in a Desktop folder called "Test", with random 8 digit alphanumeric (0-9, a-z) names. The -WhatIf switch parameter means it will give a simulated preview and will obviously need to be removed before it will actually rename any files. Make sure you test it is doing exactly what you want it to do before removing the -WhatIf switch parameter. # Path and length $Path = "$env:UserProfile\Desktop\Test" $Length = 8 # Run Get-ChildItem -Force -File -Path $Path | Where-Object { ($_.Extension -eq ".tif") -or ($_.Extension -eq ".tiff") } | ForEach-Object { $RandomName = -Join ( (48..57 + 97..122) * $Length | Get-Random -Count $Length | ForEach-Object { [char]$_ } ) Rename-Item -Path $_.FullName -NewName ("{0}{1}" -f $RandomName, $_.Extension) -WhatIf } Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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