Rename multiple files without parentheses/remove parentheses windows

Question

I want to rename a large number of files in increasing order of numbers, starting from anywhere. But when I rename multiple files, it leaves me with parentheses. eg i rename f

Answer 1

A bit late to the party, but here's a combination of removing parentheses and the empty space automatically created. This code works by having the .bat file inside a folder containing all the files you'd like to modify.

Copy and paste the code in notepad and save it as sequentialFileNameCleaner.bat

Your file name must be the same as what is written on the first line sequentialFileNameCleaner.bat. That being said, you can manually update the first line if you want to change the file name.

:sequentialFileNameCleaner  [/R]  [FolderPath]
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%a in (*.jpg) do (
set f=%%a
set f=!f:^(=!
set f=!f:^)=!
ren "%%a" "!f!"
)
@echo off
setlocal disableDelayedExpansion
if /i "%~1"=="/R" (
  set "forOption=%~1 %2"
  set "inPath="
) else (
  set "forOption="
  if "%~1" neq "" (set "inPath=%~1\") else set "inPath="
)
for %forOption% %%F in ("%inPath%* *") do (
  if /i "%~f0" neq "%%~fF" (
    set "folder=%%~dpF"
    set "file=%%~nxF"
    setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
    echo ren "!folder!!file!" "!file: =!"
    ren "!folder!!file!" "!file: =!"
    endlocal
  )

)

By default, this code will only locate .jpg files. On the 3rd line, changing the (*.jpg) to (*.png) or to (*.mp4) or any extension you'd like will make the code compatible.