Comments on: Batch Rename

By: SAbi

SAbi — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:50:29 +0000

How can specify casesensitive rename to make every second character of word found to be caps n replace rest with small caps? like if file name is “sabi sin” after rename it should look like “sAbi sIn”.

nehelp?

By: asdf

asdf — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:53:36 +0000

**** YOU

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:51:02 +0000

I’m quite a newbie to scripting so this might sound a bit stupid. I’ve downloaded the Batch Download Workflow and saved it as per the header said ie Library>Workflow etc etc. How do I add this to my right click menu? I had it on my previous macbook but now ive upgraded to a Pro and I have no idea. Guess I shouldnt be using a Pro eh? Please help

By: becky maynes

becky maynes — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:10:37 +0000

please god help me, i have 500 files in 20 different folders. the folders are all labelled individually but the 500 files have a single name and a sequential number between 1 and 500. i need to rename all 500 files their repective groups and in sequntial order. (so every folder has “folderA01 , folderA02……” and the next folder will have “folderB01 , folderB02 ….” i could replace the text but each file is currently labelled “example01 , example02 all the way thru to example_500″ so i cant just ‘replace text’ as there are the numbers 1 - 500 to contend with. why the heck is automator so useless? HELP!

By: mark

mark — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:14:00 +0000

I'm pretty sure there's a bug that prevents renaming files that are on external drives. Try it, plug in an external drive.

Find Finder Items (select a folder on the external drive) Rename Finder Items (whatever)

Then run it. I constantly get the error. 'Finder couldn't get the properties on the alias' or something, yet no alias exists.

If I copy the same folder to my main HD the scripts runs perfectly. Not a permissions issue either.

By: Robert Perry

Robert Perry — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:19:19 +0000

When I try to do it I get this error:

Finder got an error: Can't get properties of alias

By: Ales

Ales — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:16:33 +0000

Does anyone know how to do the next task in the workflow.

I get 5 different report files daily, from 5 companies. The important thing is, all files have different names and different extensions. Let’s say name1.aaa, 2name.bbb, na3me.ccc …and so on. Is it possible to rename just the first part to something i write in, and leave the extension as is? So, let’s say i’d selected the 5 files, ran the workflow, and the window would pop up, asking me for the first part of the name, the files will have (without the extension). I would then write “foo”, and the files would then be renamed to: foo.aaa, foo.bbb, foo.ccc …and so on.

Is it possible to do that?

By: Mark Cooke

Mark Cooke — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:58:42 +0000

I cant find many automator actions for ical, in particular adding templates to the notes section. Ideas where to look?