Find Holiday Pictures Fast With A File Rename Program

The holidays are here and that means you may want to share what has happened this year with the entire family. This is easy with computers as you can just put together a slideshow of all the family photos. Think of it as your new, technologically advanced, family photo album. But without organized pictures in your computer, this can be difficult to pull off.

What if you have a lot of pictures in various directories and don't even know what some of them are or where the ones you want are hidden? A file rename is probably what you're going to need to do to start and sort out this mess. A lot of people think this means you have to take hours sitting in front of your computer to sort out all of the files on your system and renaming them one by one. This does not have to be the case.

You want to enlist a batch program that can rename multiple files at the same time. If you enlist the services of a batch file rename program you can alter various aspects of large numbers of files at the same time.

File Location

If you have found that a number of your pictures are on different directories, you can highlight them and move them in bulk to where you want them. This will save you a lot of grief and frustration down the road when all of your pictures are in the same directory.

Changing The Name

One of the best things you can do when organizing pictures is make it easy to know what they are. That means you want to rename all your photo files to something that makes sense such as 'Easter Holiday 2009' or something of that sort. Instead of having to open all of the pictures on your computer trying to find the right ones, the filename will let you know exactly what you're about to see.

Change File Types

If you're like a lot of people you don't just have one photo type, but all sorts of file types when it comes to your pictures. If you want these all to be the same you can highlight them and ask a batch file rename program to convert them all into the same file type.

With a batch program it will not take long to rename all of the photo files on your computer, then you can easily pick and choose the events you want to show off and put them into a slideshow for the whole family to enjoy over the holidays.