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Auto Numbering
Auto Numbering can be exceptionally helpful especially when dealing with large quantities of the same type of file. For example if I have 50 vacation photos and I have created a rule to set the file name to "Vacation Photo ", I wouldn't want them all named the same thing, so by adding an auto number rule I can create "Vacation Photo 0001, Vacation Photo 0002, etc." automatically.
Auto Number At The Start Or End Of The File Name:
Select start if you wish your file name to look like "0001Picture", select end if you wish your file name to look like "Picture0001"
Insert Before Or After String:
This feature allows you to place the auto number inside the file name. For example if you set your file name to "Picture ()" using the file name set to rule, then used an insert after auto number and told it to insert after ( you would end up with "Picture (0001)" as your file name.
Start Count And Increment By:
The start count allows you to start your auto number at something besides 1, you can set this to any valid number. The increment by allows you to choose to count each file as more than 1 on the auto number. For example if I selected 10 as my starting number and 5 as my increment number my files would be numbered 10, 15, 20, 25, and so on.
Format Number To X Digits:
Windows sorts a little goofy, for example if you had 10 picture files named "Picture1" through "Picture10" your file list would look like "Picture1,Picture10,Picture2". To prevent this you can pad the number with 0's such as "Picture001", this allows you to properly sort 999 files because it is padded to 3 digits. You can change the default padding to any number above 0.
Add New Rule
You must always click the Add New Rule button to formally accept the rule you have created. Don't worry you can remove it later if you need to.
NOTE:
You may only have one active auto number rule at any time, if you wish to change your rule, remove it from the rules list and recreate it.
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