

When you run this script, you’ll get a new option to select the new file extension for the files you want to rename. congratulations for successfully accomplishing the batch renaming task :)ĭisplay alert "All done! Renamed " & index & " files with ’" & new_name & "’ and file extension ’" & new_extension & "’ for you. let’s rename our file, add the sequential number from ’index’ and add the file-extension to it set the nameof this_file to new_name & index_prefix & index & file_extension asstring set file_extension to "" else -yup, we are currently processing a file that has a file-extension -we have to re-add the original file-extension after changing the name of the file! set file_extension to "." & new_extension lets check if the current file from our list (based on index-number) has even any file-extension if new_extension is "" then - "" means there is no file-extension present. Set index_prefix to "0" else set index_prefix to "" 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 set this_file to item indexof all_files Repeatwithindexfrom1to the countof 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. Finally, when you’re satisfied with your choice, click on Rename at the top to do the actual task of renaming.Settext item delimiters to "." tell application "Finder" set all_files to every item of (choosefilewithprompt "Choose the Files you’d like to rename:" with multiple selections allowed ) aslistĭisplay dialog "New file name:" default answer "" set new_name totext returned ofresult You can replace text, prefix text, and even use regular expressions to change your file names. Use the dropdown at the top to select how you’d like to mass rename your files.Drag all the files you want to rename from the Finder and drop them onto the app.

