Moving and renaming files

You can reorganize your files without leaving monbooru. Moves and renames happen to the real files on disk, so what you see in your file manager matches what you see in monbooru.

Rename / move on an image’s page (or m) opens with the image’s current folder and name: change either or both. Clear the folder for the top of the gallery; clear the name to keep the current one. Missing folders are created, and the file extension stays as it is.

The gallery’s batch bar has the same thing for a selection or a whole search. There, a plain name numbers the files from one base, trip01.png, trip02.png and so on, in the order they’re shown, so sort the gallery the way you want them counted first. When several files would end up with the same name, they’re numbered apart.

Naming with tokens#

Instead of a fixed name, either field can take a template made of tokens: {date}-{name} puts the date a file was added in front of its name, and {name}-{hash:8} ends it with the first characters of the file’s hash. The dialog lists the tokens as buttons: hover one to see what it becomes, click it to add it.

The folder field can hold slashes, so archive/{year}/{type} files each image under its year and kind, and {folder}/{year} sorts within the folders you already have. In the batch bar the folder field starts out as {folder}, so a batch rename leaves files in their folders unless you change it.

Naming files as they arrive#

Settings -> General -> Where received files go decides where uploads and files sent by other apps land, and what they’re called. Both halves take the same tokens: inbox/{year}-{month} and {name}-{hash:8} file and name every incoming file. Files monloader sends can also use {source} and {post_id}: {source}-{post_id} names a download danbooru-4821993.jpg.

Files you drop into the gallery folder yourself are left where you put them, unless you tick Apply to files found on disk too. Either way, this only applies to new files: nothing already in your library is moved behind your back. To rename and file those images too, use Settings -> Maintenance -> Apply destination. With the folder left blank, every image keeps its folder and only its name changes.

To move images to another gallery, see Transfer.