Comments on: Rename Finder Item

By: Lonnie Tapscott

Lonnie Tapscott — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:26:17 +0000

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!

By: Collin

Collin — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:40:37 +0000

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

By: Phil Potter

Phil Potter — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:53:05 +0000

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.

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Frans Flask — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:15:37 +0000

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By: The Missing Automator Actions at Evil Toast

The Missing Automator Actions at Evil Toast — Thu, 25 May 2006 19:58:38 +0000

[...] 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/ [...]

By: Ariel

Ariel — Thu, 11 May 2006 10:44:03 +0000

It workk well for me. Thanks Hanaan ;-)

By: clay johnson

clay johnson — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:49:46 +0000

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