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best way to bulk find, copy, and rename files?

  • May 27, 2025
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Hi,

I dumped a ton of files into my box drive from my camera, putting them into subfolders organized by date.  And that's fine.  My camera is set to save a jpg and an nef for each picture.  What I'd like to do is search all of the subfolders for jpg files, copy all of them into a single new folder and rename if t the file exists. 

On windows, I could just run Agent Ransack, search for *.jpg, select all, copy, and paste and let windows rename the files.  If I search my box drive though, I get a timeout (plus it takes a long time because of network overhead compared to locally). I can search for jpgs in the web, but I have to keep scrolling down the page to get more results, which is worse.

I thought there might be something available in apps that would automate this process, but had no idea of what would work best.

My files are all in boxdrive\CameraBackup\YYYY-MM-DD (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit date) and I want to copy them into boxdrive\CameraJPG\, renaming them if the file already exists.

Any suggestions?

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hello. any word on this? i too am looking to bulk rename files in Box. 


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  • January 8, 2026

I am looking to BULK rename files on a mobile device, the iPad - it appears you can only rename files one by one- I presume that BOX MOBILE  does not currently support any bulk renaming? It can easily be done in BOX DRIVE on a desktop or laptop, not so much on a phone, iPad, or tablet.

 

Am I correct or is there something more I need to know?