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  1. hi, the download link is wrong, the right one is: http://www.automatorworld.com/?dl=rename-finder-item.zip

    and thx for that, exactly what I need ;)

    Comment by pulk — September 24, 2005 @ 5:44 pm

  2. Fixed, thanks.

    Comment by Steve — September 24, 2005 @ 7:03 pm

  3. Thanks, just what I needed!!

    Comment by Gábor — November 12, 2005 @ 5:00 am

  4. It didnt work for me. Does it only work in an US/Eng OS? I use norwegian OS, latest version.

    Comment by Kjell Erling Hagen — January 26, 2006 @ 8:09 am

  5. Didn’t work for me either. And I’m an english speaker.

    Comment by clay johnson — February 27, 2006 @ 4:49 pm

  6. It workk well for me.
    Thanks Hanaan ;-)

    Comment by Ariel — May 11, 2006 @ 6:44 am

  7. […] In Automator out-of-box there is no action to simply rename a file. There is one to rename a bunch of files, and add dates, prefixes, etc., but absolutley nothing that can simply rename a single file. Luckily I found the Rename Finder Item (not to be confused with the built-in “Rename Finder Items”) action. You can pick it up at http://www.automatorworld.com/archives/rename-finder-item/ […]

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  8. I’m impressed with your site, very nice graphics!

    Comment by Adolphus Ogden — July 16, 2006 @ 5:39 pm

  9. I love your website. It has a lot of great pictures and is very informative.

    Comment by Frans Flask — August 1, 2006 @ 4:15 am

  10. Do you have an action that will rename a set of files based on a string pattern? I wish to do a batch rename so that the files are sorted by date, so that Feb0607*.* becomes 070206*.* Note that this requires a lookup table to determine that Feb = 02.

    Comment by Phil Potter — February 20, 2007 @ 12:53 pm

  11. Can you add a way to prompt for the user to enter a filename?

    Comment by Collin — June 5, 2007 @ 7:40 am

  12. I know this is a really old post, but I found while searching for a way to get Automator to prompt the user the enter a filename (as per comment 11). Although I’m using version 2.0.2, which looks a bit different, here’s how to do it. Select “Options” in the “Rename Finder Items” action and check the box next to “Show this action when the workflow runs”. Finally figured it out!

    Comment by Lonnie Tapscott — December 17, 2008 @ 2:26 pm


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