Randomise files in directory?

de Terry Pinnell 06/19/2006 09:19

Does anyone know of a program that will input a selection of files in
a Windows folder (or all of them), and randomly change all their
filenames please?

What prompts this apparently odd requirement is that I have a program
called Dockware for my Pocket PC which sequentially displays all the
JPGs in a specific folder. I've loaded that folder by copying from my
PC, so there are many 'blocks' of similar photos (such as holidays,
the kids, etc.) I'd like them to be displayed less predictably, so
need to rename them randomly. Dockware itself has no facility to do
that.

IOW, I want to take files like

France2002-01.jpg
France2002-03.jpg
France2002-04.jpg
Spain 1997-09.jpg
Spain 1997-13.jpg
etc

and end up with say

xgh3.jpg
2frt.jpg
qq4k.jpg
1hfd.jpg
zxur.jpg
etc

When displayed alphabetically, these will then effectively be
randomised.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Randomise files in directory?	Terry Pinnell
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