You can replace this with any text you want. -original appends the word original to the end of every file-perfect if you plan on copying the photos somewhere else for editing but want to note which ones were the original pictures.You can use more or fewer question marks to keep more or less of the original file name. ? tells the command to keep the first six characters of the original file name (because there are six question marks).*.* means "any file in this folder." You could adjust this to say IMG*.* to limit it to any files that start with IMG, or *.jpg for any JPEG files.rename tells the system to rename the files you're about to narrow down.Leaving you with files named IMG_001-original.jpg, and so on. You'll need those quotes if your file path has any spaces in it, so don't forget them.įrom there, you can run something like the below to rename all the files in the folder: Open a command prompt and use the cd command to navigate to the folder where those files are stored, like so:Ĭd "C:\Users\Whitson\Photos\Christmas 2020" For this, you can turn to the command line. But maybe you want to do the opposite-keep the existing file name but append a word to the end.