I’m sure there are hundreds of unsorted files on your Mac right now. Pictures from your vacation, PDF documents, downloads, TV episodes and that don’t start to cover it.
The first step to organizing content is to give it a proper, identifying name. Then you find out where it goes.
That’s where mass renaming comes in, especially when you’re talking about photos, they get messy very quickly. Up until now, you needed to use a third-party app to batch rename files, but now it’s built right into OS X Yosemite.
Let’s see how it works.
Batch processing everything: I like batch processing. And it’s very easy to do. You can batch resize images with RIOT, batch mark them up, add borders with Border Maker, and compress image sizes with ImageOptim.
How to Batch Rename Files in OS X Yosemite
First, open Finder and go to the folder containing the unorganized mess. Select all the files mentioned and right click to show the options.
You will see a Rename items ‘X’… select. Clicking on that brings up the screen we’re looking for.
Rename options in Yosemite
I will use a folder with all the screenshots as an example for my Toggl review. Above, they all have super long and weird names because they’ve been worked on by several apps, and each app adds some text to the end of the image. It would be great if I could rename them to something like Toggle 1, Toggle 2 and such.
In the popup there are three options – Replace text, Insert text, And Format. Let’s look at them one by one.
Replace text
This is quite simple. You enter the text you don’t want under Find and then enter new text Replaced field.
Insert text
This option allows you to add text to the end or beginning of the filename.
Format
This is the big one. That’s what I guess most of us would use. It allows you to clear the current filename so you can start fresh.
There are a few options to play around here. Have Name format and Where select. Because Name format i’m choosing Name and Index because i want to add a number at the end of the filename. You can also choose an index or date.
The Custom format field is where you should write in the main text. The text will be the same on every file. Add a space or hyphen at the end of this text if you want a space between the name and number.
Give Where options you can specify if you want to put a number at the beginning or end of the filename.
Congratulations on the name change
That’s pretty easy, isn’t it? Now go ahead and rename everything! But don’t forget to share new titles with us in the comments below (just kidding, please let your comments count).
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