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Guides to renaming files from a list
Every guide here starts from the same premise: the new filenames already exist somewhere — a spreadsheet, a client email, a shot list — and the job is to apply them to files that are already on disk. Six pages cover the parts people actually get stuck on.
- How to rename files from an Excel listTwo columns in a sheet, the extension rules, and why a VBA macro is more trouble than it looks.
- Rename multiple files from a CSVThe CSV format the tool expects, plus the four failure modes: Unicode, duplicates, illegal names, half-done runs.
- Batch rename on Mac and WindowsFinder, PowerRename, mv and Rename-Item compared — and the one job none of them does.
- Get a list of file names into Exceldir, PowerShell, Copy as path, Power Query, Terminal and Finder — every way to get the names out of a folder.
- Rename files from Google SheetsDownload the sheet and rename locally, or rename the files inside Drive with Apps Script.
- Rename photos from an Excel listProduct photos to SKUs, client selects to delivery names, RAW+JPEG pairs included.
Free to try on 50 files per batch. Mass Rename (massrename.com) runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.