With prior versions gone,
Bulk Rename Utility (
BRU) v3.0.0.0 forum announcement reads:
Now, "
Javascript renaming", that's a first for me.
That feature alone makes
BRU stand out amidst the renaming utility crowd. Not to mention the nimbleness of a C application (~15MB memory at startup for 64-bit
BRU).
Haven't tested it (yet) for stealth, but
BRU portability is a given -- it saves settings to an INI text file in program folder, although it proposes and creates a '
Bulk Rename Utility' folder in Windows "
Documents" default location to save "
Favourites" from menu "
File".
Note that if you rename the executable as I did, it will also affect the INI name, so if you have prior settings you'd like to keep, you must rename it, too.
As did others before me (e.g.,
linuxamp,
Kenneth Just, and
bryduck at
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1008#comments) I found
BRU's UI intimidating: while the folders and filelist view is smallish, you get no less than 14 concurrent control groups for setting the file modification parameters present at all times, with secondary dialogs for some of them.
After you overcome your shock, using
BRU is quite self-evident and mostly easy, with some really powerful features -- my highlight goes to filtering, copy/move, regex, and shell integration (optional).
I still think there's plenty of room for improvement, though. E.g., extrapolating from some of my favorite renamers, I cherish the expression approach of
Siren and the tabbed parameters of
Lupas, or even the shell extension simplicity of
awxRename and
MultiRen (
http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... p?ft=17019).