MS-DOS: Undo rename command?

[Sn00pY]

undo?

err. Explain...

[Sn00pY]

undo?

err. Explain...

[kinetix63 Veteran]

Not unless you're in the same command window that you used to do it. In which case you'd UP arrow key until you find the re-name command, and you'd just swap the file names around.

DOS doesn't keep an "audit" over the files, so it doesn't know what it was called before, and thus cannot be "undone" by the click of a button.

[Intersect]

this site should help

http://www.easydos.com/dosindex.html

altho i havent used ms dos properly since win 3.1

you might be able to do it with a batch file some how

[deadlogics]

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undo?

err. Explain...

I used "RENAME *.* prefix*.*" to rename all files in a directory and add an identical prefix for all of them. However it did't work as I expcted and the prefix replaced a part of the filename (which contain a very important index number). So it possible to get all the file names back?