I cannot rename files in bulk using ubuntu's rename feature. The files are on a NTFS partition.

I want to rename files that look like this:

whatever pic george.jpg
tacoma narrows bridge.jpg
green bottle.jpg

to:

filename (1)
filename (2)
filename (3)

And I cannot do this at all. I don't want to use the command line either. So I can permanently erase files after I have encrypted them without exposing their contents to people who use a file recovery tool.

I also don't want a method that takes days or months to rename the file. That is, rename one file at a time. So if I have hundreds of files to rename, this won't be a option. I want to give a each file the same name and numbered in order like shown above.

Pyrenamer is not an option for me, unless you can find how to do that in PyRenamer.