{"id":272,"date":"2013-09-16T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2013-09-16T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T21:22:12","slug":"batch-changerename-file-extensions-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/archives\/272","title":{"rendered":"Batch Change\/Rename File Extensions In Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today while I was editing some photos I took for <a href=\"http:\/\/stsff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">a rescue organization<\/a> I work with, I realized that my image processing software outputs <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Filename_extension\" target=\"_blank\">file extensions<\/a> in ALL CAPS (.JPG) instead of lowercase (.jpg) like I prefer. It&#8217;s not a big deal, but I like my file extensions in lowercase. <\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t up to editing 35 files individually, so I took to Google and quickly found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictivetips.com\/windows-tips\/batch-change-rename-file-extensions-in-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\">this very easy to follow tutorial<\/a> on how to update the file extensions on all files within the same folder at once with one quick command. <\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re comfortable with computers or not, I suggest you check it out because it&#8217;s super easy and may just come in handy one day! <\/p>\n<p><em>Note regarding Method #1 on the site: The asterisk is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wildcard_character#Computing\" target=\"_blank\">wildcard character<\/a> which tells the system that any file name ending in the extension you specify should be changed to the new extension you specify.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today while I was editing some photos I took for a rescue organization I work with, I realized that my image processing software outputs file extensions in ALL CAPS (.JPG) instead of lowercase (.jpg) like I prefer. It&#8217;s not a big deal, but I like my file extensions in lowercase. I wasn&#8217;t up to editing <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/archives\/272\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3SUar-4o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extrapolatethis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}