Sometimes you do not even know that you can benefit from
something because you do not know that this feature actually
exists in the application or in the operating system that you
are using. I recently learned that you can simultaneously
rename multiple files on a Mac directory and this process is
actually really easy.
To make the illustration a little bit easier, let us suppose
that we have a list of twelve images, where we want to remove
from their names the text Screen Shot, because we do
not want to have that phrase in our titles. To do this, you
need to go to the directory in which these files are located.
Then you need to select these files with
Shift-click.
Then you need to go to the Action option at
the top of the Finder window.
Then select Rename [number] Items from the drop down menu:
A new window will open, where by default
Replace Text is already chosen. Below
After that, we simply need to hit Rename and
see the renaming results:
If you are not content with the results, you can undo the
changes by going to Edit and then
Undo to revoke the renaming of the files.
There are other functions that are given, with which, Instead
of replacing text, you can insert text, like date, counter
etc. To test these, you can choose
Add Text or Format functions
in the small window that we used to replace our text.
When you choose Format, you can select three
options for Name Format:
Name and Index, Name and Counter and
Name and Date.
You can then enter a name that you want to insert into
Custom Format and after you are done with
that, you can simply hit Rename.
This was a quick tip that I learned these days and decided to
share with you, as you may need it sometimes. I hope you find
it helpful just like me.