Advanced Options

The Advanced Options action allows you to customize your renaming process in a highly flexible manner.

If you are not yet familiar with Multi-Step Renames and the Advanced Sidebar, you may want to read those topics before proceeding.

First open the Advanced Sidebar and switch to the Actions tab. At the bottom right of the action list, you will find two small icons, a gear with a + sign and a funnel with a + sign. Click on the gear with the + sign button to create the Advanced Options action.

Once created, you will you find the Advanced Options action at the very top of the actions list. It cannot be moved or duplicated and its parameters always apply to all actions within the action list.

If you select it by clicking on it, the parameter section will show a number of advanced options that allow you to customize the way that Better Rename works in a variety of powerful ways. This action is stored together with your presets, allowing you to store settings that were previously only available through the application preferences.

Conflict Resolution

By ticking the Use Custom Conflict Resolution checkbox, you will override the file name conflict resolution in the application preferences.

File Extension Pairings

Many digital cameras and some advanced programs, such as photo editors, create multiple, related files that store different information. The most common usage for this to associate thumbnail pictures, with RAW photo files, or “sidecar” files.

It can often be useful to ensure that when one of these files is renamed, all the other related files have their file names changed in the same manner.

When you check the Use File Extension Pairings checkbox, Better Rename will internally manage this association. You need to put the file extension(s) of the main file into the Take names from: text field, and the file extensions of the associated file types into the Apply to: text field.

You can put a single file extension (e.g. jpg) or multiple file extensions separated by commas (e.g. cr2, cr3, nef) into either field.

Custom Shooting Date Priority Order & Timezones

This is a very complicated topic, so please refer to its own help section