And don’t panic if it all goers wrong - just hit Command-Z and you can undo any changes you made instantly. Give it a go next time you want to rename more than one or two files. You can even tie the different operations together to get fancier - you could replace a single word in all the files, and then run the renamer again to add numbers to them. If you leave the base filename blank, then this action will only add the numbers to the original filename.Īs you can see, the renaming tools in the Finder are good enough for most purposes, even some more advanced tasks. In all three options, you can choose to put the numbers before or after the base filename. Date adds the current date and time to the base filename. Index uses the number alone, whereas Counter pads the number with zeros, as in the above example. Index and Counter let you specify a string number from which to count up. In all three, you give it a base filename. In this option, you can choose Name and Index, Name and Counter, or Name and Date. If they can be trusted to do it, that is. Customize how you Control-click: Change options for secondary click for your trackpad or for your mouse. The options shown in the shortcut menu vary depending on the item you click. For example, Control-click an icon, a window, the toolbar, the desktop, or another item. Now, the Finder has powerful bulk-renaming tools built in, so you can just take care of it all in a couple of minutes, and have your intern make you a coffee instead. Control-click: Press and hold the Control key while you click an item.
In the olden days, you would have to either a) research, download, buy, and learn to use a new bulk-renaming app or b), punish your intern by making them correct everything by hand, before finally resorting to a) anyway because the intern screwed it up again.
#Adding a better finder rename to right click on mac full
Do you have a folder full of photos named IMG_00xx.JPG that need to be called dads_wedding_00x.jpg instead? Or perhaps that intern spelled the company name wrong on every single one of a hundred files, and you need to correct that word on every file? But what if you want to rename a whole bunch of files at once? Maybe you want to add the same text to the beginning of every file, or add a number to the end of a folder full of MP3 recording to keep them in the right order. You can click on its name and type in a new one. With Renamer, you can save hours of tedious typing at the stroke of a button. If you ever had to rename hundreds or thousands of files file by hand and thought 'there must be an easier way', then Renamer is for you. Renaming a single file in the Finder isn’t too bad. Renamer is a powerful, feature-rich batch-file renamer that makes renaming many files quick and easy.
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