Function: Renames the selected files (or files in the selected folders) based on the user-set preferences.
Author: Automator World
Notes: It works best as a Contextual Menu Plug-in; copy into ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder/. It also works well as an Application for drag-and-drop use.
Thanks for this!! Saved me so many hours this morning!!
Comment by snowy — August 20, 2009 @ 2:53 pm
Is it possible to do a batch rename using a spread sheet? I have alot of files i need to rename, but they file names are all over the place.
Comment by Kristy — August 3, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
anyone know how to do a grep rename? that feature seems to be absent.
Comment by Waffen Hussein — July 21, 2009 @ 11:00 am
[...] one file at a time. If you’ve ever had to do this manually, you know what a pain this is. Batch Rename makes this painless on selected files and everything within selected [...]
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