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A simple tip to help when renaming many files
Authored by: nother on Wed, Dec 12 2007 at 10:01AM PST

Yeah, manually renaming files in the Finder sucks.

Automator has a 'Rename Finder Items' action that is pretty easy to use. It can do 'add date or time', 'add text', 'change case', 'make sequential' (numbering), or 'replace text' which probably account for 90% of the things most people need to do.