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How to automatically modify file name with automator mac
How to automatically modify file name with automator mac




congratulations for successfully accomplishing the batch renaming task :)ĭisplay alert "All done! Renamed " & index & " files with ' " & new_name & "' for you. Set the name of this_file to new_name & index_prefix & index & file_extension as string let's rename our file, add the sequential number from 'index' and add the file-extension to it we have to re-add the original file-extension after changing the name of the file!

how to automatically modify file name with automator mac

yup, we are currently processing a file that has a file-extension "" means there is no file-extension present. lets check if the current file from our list (based on index-number) has even any file-extension if the index number is lower than 10, we will add a preceding "0" for a proper filename sorting later using our index, we select the appropriate file from our list

how to automatically modify file name with automator mac

Repeat with index from 1 to the count of all_files the 'index' number is of course required for the sequential renaming of our files! 'index' is our counter that we initially set to 1 and then count up with every file. now we start looping through all selected files. Set all_files to every item of ( choose file with prompt "Choose the Files you'd like to rename: " with multiple selections allowed) as listĭisplay dialog "New file name: " default answer ""

how to automatically modify file name with automator mac

this is required to break the filename into pieces (separate name and extension) Open in AppleScript Editor and save as Application






How to automatically modify file name with automator mac