![]() We can go and add the day or time, and it gives you also options. Other things you can do include just simply adding text, either after or before or as the extension to a file. Now we look in the folder and we see the results are all the files have been renamed media' and a number. We'll select the same folder here, all the sounds in it, and do it. So lets rename all the files that we're going to select and just rename them with a word and then place the number after the name, start at number one, separate by nothing so there's no dash or space or anything like that and we can make all the digits, all the number two digits long or we can leave that unselected. For instance, we can go ahead and add a number to the existing name or add a number to the new name. Now when we make them sequential there's a lot of different things we can do. Now we can try different things, like instead of replacing text, for instance, we can make them sequential. So I've successfully did a batch rename replacing text. By selecting all of these I've selected the first one, shift and selected the last one, select them all I'm going to choose them all and it's going to go ahead, it's going to tell me what it did, and if I go ahead and look in this folder now I can see that it indeed renamed all these files from audio003' to sound003.wav'. In there I've got a bunch of files name audio' with a number after it. We're going to run it, and on the desktop I've got a folder called Test'. Now we don't have to create a full workflow and save it for future use we can just run this one here just this one time, which is what we're going to do. We're going to go and look for this text, the word audio' in the full name of the file and we're going to ignore case there, and we're going to replace it with this word, sound'. Lets start with a simple one, like replace text. We can add a date or time, we can add text, change the case, make sequential, replace text or name a single item. ![]() So now we've got two steps here in the workflow the first is to choose multiple files and the second is to do something with them. We're just going to go ahead and rename the files right away without any problem. Now it's going to give us a warning about this particular one that it's going to basically rename these items and there's also a way for us to copy the originals so we don't destroy the originals with the new ones that have been renamed. ![]() If we drag that underneath this one we'll get to add it. Lets do a search here for rename', and we can see there is an item here that matches the Rename Finder Items'. So the next thing we want to do is we want to rename these files. Of course the whole point of batch rename is select multiple files and have them all renamed. Now you get to define some things, like what the prompt says, where to start at the desktop and in this case we want to allow multiple selections of files. We're going to select that and we're going to drag that into this area here. Lets look in Files and Folders, and one of the first items is Ask For Finder Items'. You can search for one or you can click on a category here. On the left we can choose from various different actions that Automator can do. ![]() This gives you a blank workflow to the right. Just choose the default, which is workflow'. Now when you first run it you'll get asked to choose a template. So look in your applications folder for Automator. But in Mac OS X Snow Leopard you can use Automator to do that and much more. In Windows there's an F2 key that allows you to do a bunch of different things. So one of the problems switchers have when coming from Windows is that it's not very easy to batch rename files in Mac OS X. On today's episode, lets learn how to batch rename files. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 312 : Batch Rename Multiple Files at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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