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Program for renaming files in a folder?
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Sep 16, 2002, 03:00 PM
 
Is there an OSX utility that can take all my digital picures and rename them to a basic root with a number indicating the picture number? ie: bday001.jpg, bday002.jpg etc? Can you do this with photoshop? If so how? Thanks for the help.

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Sep 16, 2002, 03:24 PM
 
Funny that you should ask that question today as I have just spent the last eight hours putting collections of oddly named photo's into PHP arrays, allowing them to be called by number instead of by name.

Photo one = item one, that sort of idea.

I'll be interested to see what answers this thread produces.
     
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Sep 16, 2002, 07:10 PM
 
I have not tried this in Photoshop, but using the convert feature in Graphic Converter, I was able to rename every file I had in a directory test01,02, etc.
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Sep 16, 2002, 11:56 PM
 
In Photoshop 7, open the file browser and find your folder of pictures.

Select all of them and right-click to "batch rename". Then select options as desired.

Saved a lot of time for the pictures I wanted to change the names of.

Hope this helps some people.

Mike
     
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Sep 21, 2002, 10:01 PM
 
I can't believe it, all these replies and no-one has mentioned the super powerful 'better finder rename' for this task.

http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/
     
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Sep 24, 2002, 05:22 AM
 
file buddy will do it too
     
   
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