Having permission to rename a file

each time i wish to rename a picture file a pop up says i have not got the acess/privelage to do so. i have to get info, unlock the sharing and permission lock and change 'everyone' to 'no access' then it allows me to name my file. I am the sole user to my mac and don't wish anyone else to use my folders/acess my accounts so how can i get rid of the'everyone' or make myself the sole access to naming files/folders without having to go through the above avery time ??? THANK YOU TO ANY HELP x also is there a way to rename all files in a folder at once with consecutive numbers ? can you just highlight all, type name of folder eg:cornwal 2010 and 1 after the first pic in folder so it renames all consecutively cornwall 2010 1 then 2 then 3 etc ?

Select the icon of your home folder in the sidebar of a Finder window, and open the Info dialog. After unlocking the dialog, eliminate all permissions except "Me: Read & Write" and "Everyone: No Access." From the action menu (with the gear icon at the bottom left corner of the dialog) select "Apply to enclosed items." Close the dialog and try again.

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Well, you've done more fiddling than that; you've moved everything inside the Finder tell block. Why did you do that? If you recall my point 2 above, it is difficult to use POSIX paths or the POSIX file command inside Finder tell blocks without generating errors, but you've done both in your revision. I'm surprised that you're surprised that it doesn't work.
Applescript tries to be user-friendly, but it's still a programming language, and like any programming language the devil is in the details. Changes that seem small and innocuous to you can make big differences in the result you get.
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/Users/Shared should be machine independent in POSIX: you don't need to specify the hard drive name and it should be universal on all OS X installations. You can specify it directly.
The Finder's delete command moves fils to the trash, it doesn't erase them. Trying to use the move command to get files to the trash is a little bass-ackwards.
Don't put anything inside a Finder tell block unless it has to be processed by the Finder. If you do you're just begging for errors.
There's no need to put the script at the root level of the drive. If the Finder needs permission to delete a file it will ask.
untangled and revised:
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i have used renameTo method but the folder is still editable.
plz suggest this,

You need to set the permissions on the file.
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Renaming a File to File without Mapping

Hi All,
I am having a scenario where there is a text file transfer without any conversion i.e. basically a file to file scenario with no mapping. The only requirement is to rename source file which has .csv extn to .dat. For instance if the sender file is XYZ.csv, the file at the receiver side should be XYZ.dat.
As there is no mapping, I cannot use Dynamic Configuration UDF in mapping. One other option is to write an adapter module which seems too bulky for this small requirement. So as of now I am looking at any option which I can use without having to create IR objects or do text ->XML -> text conversion.
I hope experts here can help in resolving the current problem and/or give some pointers
Best Regards,
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> OS Command in File Receiver Channel: mv %f `basename %f .csv`.dat
I think you should use the full path address, the same as you used for the folder.
You can also use an adapter module, it is just a couple of lines:
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How to delete & rename Quicktime files in Windows?

Hi all,
I am having a problem to remove(delete) and rename quicktime files in Windows XP pro because it says "*Cannot delete .... It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.*". I saw the same post with this issue in Page 3 in this forum, but we don't get the answer yet. Please give us the answer for it with this quicktime issue in Windows.
Followings are some answers that I found in other websites, but none of them solves this problem.
You can't delete those Quicktime movies because they are being used/opened by Quicktime. Run your Quicktime and clear any playlists that you saved and then open a video (that is not in one of the videos you wanted to delete). Then exist the program. Now go delete the videos you wanted to delete earlier and see if you can delete them this time.
If you have quicktime running in the background, it will own it so you can't delete it.Rebooting may not help because quicktime usually starts with Windows. Go to C: Windows/system32 and scroll down to msconfig.exe. You can open it or right click, hold, drag it to you desktop, release right click, and create a shortcut to it. Open the shortcut (double click), go to the startup tab, and uncheck all instances of quicktime. Reboot and try to do what you want with the .mov file.
Thank you very much in advance.

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