Vault Renumbering

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to renumber a lot of AutoCAD files

From A0210001.dwg to A-021-0001.dwg

I want to keep the last 4 digits the same. I use to use a dos comand to be able to do this long ago.

[olearya]

Hi Doug,

The best approach if you can is to select a common batch of file names to rename and use the "replace" option in the new file name field within this dialog.

Hope this helps

[Anonymous]

Do you mean,

Select some files and from the Edit Menu select Replace?

I tried that and since these are AutoCAD files there are no parent files related this would not work.

What I have been doing is using the rename wizard, change numbering scheme to None, add a Prefix "A-021-"

and apply that. Then I have to go into each file name and delete the first 4 digits of the old number.

I was hoping for something a bit more automatic.

[olearya · Accepted solution]

Hi Doug,

No - within the rename command you can right click on the "new name" column and select "replace" - this allows you to search on a text string and replace it with your new string.  The catch is you need to have a bunch of files that share the same string at the start of the existing file name and be careful it does not replace the string in a different area of the file name but I think you should be OK In this regard.

[Anonymous]

That is exactly what I wanted. Thank you So much