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Batch Rename
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.
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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”.
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Comment by SAbi — August 11, 2008 @ 4:50 am
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
Comment by Mark — July 21, 2007 @ 1:51 pm
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!
Comment by becky maynes — April 27, 2007 @ 10:10 am
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.
Comment by mark — February 2, 2007 @ 6:14 pm
When I try to do it I get this error:
Finder got an error: Can’t get properties of alias
Comment by Robert Perry — January 21, 2007 @ 3:19 pm