Does anyone know of some quick and easy way to batch over 1,000 music files and change the file type? I just went through a laborious process of recovering a pile of data from an external HDD that died on me in the middle of a data transfer. Took a while, but I finally managed to recover most of the missing files, but they're in a folder where they've all been marked as .chk files. Marking them all again as .mpg files will take hours and hours of work - does anyone know if there's a quick way I can highlight the folder and get some program to to re-badge all the content from .chk to .mpg? It would sure save me a lot of work - and a sore wrist! They don't need to be processed - just have the file type changed. Alter three letters, and the files are back as good as new.
batch converting files
- Thread starter timbo59
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strollin
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If you're sure all of the .chk files should be renamed to .mpg then open a command prompt and navigate to that folder. Once in the folder type "rename *.chk *.mpg" (no quotes) and press ENTER. This command will blindly rename every file in the folder ending with .chk to .mpg.