Comments on: Use AppleScript to Quickly Change File Names

By: mixed_berry

mixed_berry — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:06:21 +0000

Hi,
I can’t find finder scripts under the scripts menu. In fact when I open finder scripts folder there isn’t any item in it. I use an imac 10.6.4
Any help please?

By: Dedwarmo

Dedwarmo — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:38:55 +0000

There is program called GraphicConverter at Lemkesoft.com. It’s primarily a graphics program but it has a very powerful renaming function under it’s Convert and Modify menu. You can download a free trial from the website. It does subfolders and it will let you trim the end or beginning of file names. The free version is fully funcional you just have to wait 10 seconds every time it starts up.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:25:09 +0000

Thanks for this tip. How do you confine the file name changes to files in just one particular folder? I had the folder whose file names I wanted changed open in Finder, but the script also changed the name of a file I had just sitting on my desktop.

By: Mike Puckett

Mike Puckett — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:05:39 +0000

I could not get this to work, but did figure out that simply selecting the file and hitting the Enter key immediately makes the file name editable……

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:34:03 +0000

Thanks – a great tip.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:16:22 +0000

This is a huge timesaver!
However, is there anyway to apply it to subfolders?
Or after searching for specific items applying it to all found items?

We are cleaning up our server and need to remove all unusual/punchtuations characters such as &#$! etc…

Thanks!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:06:16 +0000

This is GREAT! But how can I use the TRIM FILE NAMES script to remove ANYTHING beyond a certain character count?

We have file names like:
12345 blah blah blah
23457 blah blahhha blahh

We want to keep the first 5 digits, but remove everything past this.

Is there a wildcard we can use?

Can this be modified to search within sub-folders?

THANKS!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:18:49 +0000

…nice tip but cannot do recursively . Thank you.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:03:36 +0000

Happy New Year!

Even happier since I found your site. Yep, same here, had to move across to a different platform and needed to change 8,597 file names to do it. Applescript did it with 3 key strokes! Thank you so much.

Sugoi!

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:05:30 +0000

Thanks!
Your tip was very useful!

By: Matthew Wilson

Matthew Wilson — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:35:14 +0000

Thanks, just changed from PC to Mac and changing file and folder names was driving me insane!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:05:49 +0000

You have nice How-To articles, so I would like to know if you would be interested in joining the MadMac team. Please reply to me by email.

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