Renaming utilities and naming conventions for calibre

[valiha]

Pertaining to my previous post, does anyone have any experience with bulk renaming utilities? Which one would you recommend? 

And as for renaming the files, how would I go about renaming a file like 01 Title.html to Author - 01 - Title.html? 

Also, if you can offer advice on what naming conventions to use to prepare a file for importing to calibre, I'd be very grateful.

Comments

[valiha]

I was looking at screenshots of Better File Rename and Bulk Rename Utility and discovered there's a huge difference in the way they're set up. BRU has a massive amount of sections and subsections (http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Screenshots.php), so I am now going through their help files and forum.

I'm going to install BFR too and see which one is easier to work with.

OK, that seems like something I can work with, and I'd only have to change the number of characters after which I wanted to ad a dash when I started working on a new author folder. (This would be number of characters counted from the beginning of the file, yes?)

[kate_nepveu]

Yup!

(Whuff, BRU looks complicated to me. But if you like it, then hey! There's a reason that there are different tools out there, after all.)

[valiha]

It is, and I may give up on it in favor of something simpler. I now have BFR open and am trying out its functions (moving articles to their correct position).