Newbie to automater - need to rename files in a folder

Hi, I'm new to automator.
I have lots of folders of .psd files and .jpg files within each one. they are named in a particular way, that I need to change a word in each one's file name to another one of my choice, ie:
thisis_a_fileaugust.psd needs to be changed to thisis_a_filefebruary.psd
any idea if his is possible - is it easy - as its taking a while to go into each one and change it
tia

Search for "renamer" on VersionTracker or Macupdate for utilities. I use an older (when it was free) version of Renamer4Mac (2.8.2) that you might still be able to get. You'll find lots of renaming utilities. I also use PSrenamer, though it is a bit slow.

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Need a script to do the following... rename files based on folder name...

Hi. Macophile just starting to tread the waters of Applescript, trying to use Automator but don't think it will do what I need.
I have many images stored with-in folders that I would like to extrapolate a given number of characters from the folder name and Add Text to the files within those given folders.
Basically...
Folder name is C00100_Descriptive
Files within folder are just Descriptive_01, Descriptive_02
Would like to make all files within a given folder take the first 7 characters from the folder and Add that text to all files and files within subfolders of that folder to make the resulting files shown as...
C00100Descriptive01
C00100Descriptive02
Along with this I would also like to incorporate into the script, an added step to create Thumbnail jpegs of the image files in a Subfolder under C00100_Descriptive folder.
I can see how to do that in automator but not specifying parameters such as taking a certain number of characters from the folder the file resides in and adding that selected text to the files.
Ideally I would like a droplet or something that I could take a bunch of folders and drop them on the droplet to perform these actions.
Any advice, help or guidance would be really helpful! Thanks in advance.

Awesome, you're quite welcome, glad to hear it worked for ya!! Here's another version of the script that will rename the thumb files as jpg...
<pre style="width:630px;height:auto;overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:hidden;"
title="Copy this code and paste it into your Script Editor application.">on run
set theItems to choose folder with multiple selections allowed
open (theItems)
end run
on open (itemList)
repeat with anItem in itemList
set theInfo to info for anItem
--VERIFY THAT THE OPENED ITEM IS A FOLDER
if folder of theInfo and not package folder of theInfo then
--SET PATH TO THE FOLDER
set theFolder to POSIX path of anItem
--GET FIRST PART OF FOLDER NAME
set folderNameStart to do shell script "echo " & ¬
quoted form of (name of theInfo) & "|awk -F'_' '{print $1}'"
--GET ALL FILE NAMES
set fileList to list folder anItem without invisibles
--PROCEED IF FOLDER NOT EMPTY
if fileList is not {} then
--SET PATH TO THUMBNAIL FOLDER
set thumbFolder to theFolder & "_thumbs/"
--CREATE FOLDER IF IT DOESN'T ALREADY EXIST
try
do shell script "mkdir " & quoted form of thumbFolder
end try
--PROCESS FILES
repeat with fileName in fileList
--SET PATH TO CURRENT FILE
set oldFile to theFolder & fileName
--PROCEED IF FILE IS NOT A FOLDER
set oldFileInfo to info for POSIX file oldFile
if not folder of oldFileInfo then
--SET NEW FILE AND THUMB FILE PATHS
set newFileName to folderNameStart & "_" & fileName
set newFile to theFolder & newFileName
set theExt to name extension of oldFileInfo
set thumbName to text 1 through -((length of theExt) + 1) of newFileName & "jpg"
set thumbFile to thumbFolder & "thumb_" & thumbName
--RENAME FILE
do shell script "mv " & quoted form of oldFile & space & ¬
quoted form of newFile
--CREATE THUMBNAIL
--REPLACE '128' WITH MAX HEIGHT OR WIDTH OF THUMB
try
do shell script "sips -s format jpeg -s dpiHeight 72 -s dpiWidth 72 -Z 128 " & ¬
quoted form of newFile & " --out " & quoted form of thumbFile
end try
end if
end repeat
end if
end if
end repeat
end open</pre>

Need to rename files parsing date formats in the filename [SOLVED]

Godaddy changed the naming scheme of their server logs again. I need some perl or something magic that will convert format A to format B. Doing this is bash is going to be painful so I'm hoping some of your perl or python ninjas out there could help me.
format A: ex20140425000001.log
format B: Wed, May 21, 2014.log
So for the example above, that date needs to be converted to this name: ex20140521000001.log
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: nevermind... forgot about date.
#!/bin/bash
for i in *.log; do
fixeddate="$(echo $i | sed -e 's/,//g' -e 's/^....//' -e 's/.log//')"
useitdate="$(date -d "$fixeddate" +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)"
newname="ex$useitdate.log"
mv "$i" "$newname"
done
Last edited by graysky (2014-06-07 09:41:59)

sempervirent,
You're asking for some pretty advanced file naming. Most people aren't going to need that sort of function, so I doubt there will be a hook into Aperture to do such a thing. I suggest using a shell script or Applescript along with EXIFTool to rename files before you import them into Aperture. http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
Retain the unique number that the image already has
If you're not afraid of the command line, it's easy enough to use a tool like awk or maybe perl to parse that sequence number from a well-formatted string like the picture name
Replace "DSC" with the camera model (D3X)
You can use EXIFTool to extract the camera model from the EXIF dat ain the photos
Add a digit prior to the four-digit string to indicate the true numeric sequence of the file.
Good luck with this one. You'll have to do a filename search through all of your previous files to find out what 10,000 you're on. It's possible, but you'd have to do some specialized coding in AppleScript or shell script.
nathan

I need to open files in a folder within a photoshop action

I am writing an action (to be triggered by automator) to take three photos from a tethered camera and open, size, and crop them, and place them in specific locations on a template image to create two photo-booth strips side by side on a 4x6 print. It works perfectly, but when I write the "open" command into the action, it referenced the files by name. I need to find a way to have my action open the three files in a folder (the only three that will be there thanks to my automator action), but not reference them by name. Is there any way of opening images in an action without referencing them by name? Maybe some sort of open images in a folder type of thing? Any ideas are very much appreciated.
---Dan

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Hi Pratik,
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/502991a2-45d9-2910-d99f-8aba5d79fb42?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true
This link might help.
regards
Anupam

Automatically open newly added files in a folder?

Hi there.
I own a Nikon D80 and I want to have the images I take transfered directly to my Mac to be stored and displayed. I found this om flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/d80/discuss/72157603787246133/ where a user describes how to automatically add the photos to a folder on the Mac, now all I need is a script that will automatically open the newly imported photos, is it possible to do - and how? (I figured it probably had something to do with automator, but since I don't know anything about coding anything, I need some help).
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All I can suggest is peruse the AppleScript forum for possible scripts or post your query there. It's under OS X Technologies. I don't do workflows, so I just pointed you to the basic starting point. Alternatively, post your query to the Flickr forum.

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Try the freeware utility Renamer4Mac (VersionTracker or MacUpdate).
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Rename file name & format using ftp sender

Hi all,
This is regarding the renaming of file at sender file(FTP) communication channel and placeing the same file in the same folder.
At FTP server at sender side (i.e.clients place) is in .txt format.But now .txt file has to rename and change into .sav foramt with below required name convention of file.
client format is : SAP_Order.txt (Pervious file name).
We need to change the file in to "SAP_Order_yyyymmddThhmmss.sav" format..
How can i achieve this requirement?
Can please suggests me solutions ASAP.
Best Regards,
satya,

Hi,
if your requirement is to pick the existing file in the FTP folder...and send as idoc to the target and place the renamed file to FTP folder...
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use two receivers instead of one , one for point to target and other for sender itself... (second receiver is for changing the file name format....)
Hope the above understanding is correct...if not provide more details of your requirement...
HTH
Rajesh

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Use code such as:
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repeat with this_file from 1 to (count (get files of the_folder))
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end tell
replacing the last this_file on the fourth line with the variable which contains the number.
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Currently I am using a SSIS package to read data from a .dat file and load it into SQL Server tables.
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I want to schedule the SSIS package to run daily and take the latest file in the folder based on the date.
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Thanks in advance.

Hi SQL_SSIS_Dev,
According to your description, you want to get the latest file from a path to a SQL Server table. After testing the issue in my environment, we can refer to the following steps to achieve your requirement:
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The following screenshot is for your reference:
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Renaming files in a book

Hi everyone,
I need to rename files in a book, but from within the book. A Save as... won't update the cross refrences.
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I don't see anything else documented in the Scripting Guide. Does anyone else have any other suggestions?
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My hangup was that pulling files from the book itself created Doc objects, not File objects (beginners mistake, you hate to see it). Anyway, here are some of the functions that I came up with to handle this task for anybody who needs it. Please be warned, this is quite literally my first ExtendScript project so this may not be the most efficient way to have done this (I'm always open to constructive criticism from those more experienced than myself). I know I went overkill with notes in the code, that was requested by colleagues who know less about code than I do so that if I were no longer employed for some reason another person could come in and understand exactly what the code was doing.
function fileNameReplacer(FullArray, CodeBook, BookFile) {
    /*The fileNameReplacer steps through all of the files in the book looking for those who need to be renamed.
        The function first renames all of the files, and then cycles through each file's Crossreferences and updates the
        names to reflect name changes*/
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    var FileName,
        BookName,
        FilePath,
        FullName,
        FileType,
        EncodedName,
        OldName,
        NewName,
        ThisFile,
        OpenFile,
        FileArray;
    FileArray = FullArray;
    /*Loops through all of the files in the book*/
    for (var i = 0, len = FileArray.length; i < len; i++) {
        /*Tests if the file is type 255 which would signify it is a folder or a group (These will not be renamed and would throw errors)*/
        if (FileArray[i][0].type == 255) {
            /*If the file is identified as a group or folder, it is removed from the Array with the "splice" command*/
            FileArray.splice(i, 1);
            /*The counters for this loop are then adjusted to reflect the new length of the "FileArray" variable*/
            i = i - 1;
            len = len - 1;
            /*Starts the next round of the loop (which is actually repeating the same loop but without the group or folder in the Array)*/
            continue;
        /*If the file being looked at is not a folder or group, it is assigned to the "ThisFile" variable*/
        ThisFile = FileArray[i][0];
        /*Checks the file to see if it's element catalog has values. If there are no values, it would mean that there is no data from which
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        if (ThisFile.ElementCatalog.length !== 0) {
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            FullName = ThisFile.Name;
            /*The FullName is then split into an array at each backslash (Backslashes in JavaScrip have their own meaning, in order to
                input a single backslash two must be used). The last item of the array is the file name which is assigned to the "FileName"
                variable using the "pop" command*/
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            /*The FileName is then split at the period, and the file extension with a leading period is assigned to the "FileType" variable.*/
            FileType = "." + FileName.split(".").pop();
            /*The file path without file name is assigned to the "FilePath" variable. This is done by identifying where in the "FullName" variable
                the "FileName" begins, and then taking a substring of the "FullName" up to that point.*/
            FilePath = FullName.substr (0, (FullName.indexOf(FileName)));
            /*The new encoded file name is found by running the current file through the nameEncoder function along with the Abbreviation List
                (Called "CodeBook" in this function). The value produced by the nameEncoder function is assigned to the "EncodedName" variable*/
            EncodedName = nameEncoder(ThisFile, CodeBook);
            /*The encoded name and original name are then assigned to locations 2 and 1 in the File array respetively*/
            FileArray[i][2] = FilePath + EncodedName + FileType;
            FileArray[i][1] = FullName;
            /*The old name and new name are compared to see if a change has actually occurred*/
            if (FileArray[i][1] === FileArray[i][2]) {
                /*If no change has occured, the file is removed from the array using the "splice" command, since it will only slow down later processes.*/
                FileArray.splice(i, 1);
                /*The loop counters are updated to reflect the change in FileArray length*/
                i = i - 1;
                len = len - 1;
                /*Starts the next round of the loop (which is actually repeating the same loop but with the file not requiring renaming removed)*/
                continue;
        } else {
            /*If the element catalog for the current file does not have any values it is removed from the "FileArray" using the "splice" command*/
            FileArray.splice(i, 1);
            /*The loop counters are updated to reflect the change in FileArray length*/
            i = i - 1;
            len = len - 1;
            /*Starts the next round of the loop (which is actually repeating the same loop but with the file lacking elements removed)*/
            continue;
    /*At this point the FileArray contains only files that can, and have been renamed; along with their current and new names*/
    /*Loops through all files in the FileArray*/
    for (var l = 0, lenA = FileArray.length; l < lenA; l++) {
        /*Assigns the current file, its old name, and its new name to the "ThisFile", "OldName", and "NewName" variables respectively*/
        ThisFile = FileArray[l][0];
        OldName = FileArray[l][1];
        NewName = FileArray[l][2];
        /*Opens the current file assigned to "ThisFile" as a File object. File objects allow for changes on the drive itself to be made, while
            changing the .Name attribute of a Doc object will not. This allows for the encoded names to be applied directly to the files themseves.*/
        OpenFile = File(ThisFile.Name);
        OpenFile.rename(NewName);
        /*Changes the file's label to the value of "NewName" and removes the file type (as the label does not show file type)*/
        ThisFile.Label = NewName.split(".").shift();
        /*Changes the PrintFileName value to the value of "NewName" with the file type changed to ".ps"*/
        ThisFile.PrintFileName = NewName.split(".").shift() + ".ps";
    /*Traverses all files in the books and renames the target the book is looking for. If this is not done, the book will still think the old names exist and will
        try to find them to no avail. "traverse" function sends each component in the book through another function,
          in this case the bookComponentRenamer, and supplies the second function with a parameter, FileArray here.*/
    traverse(BookFile, bookComponentRenamer, FileArray);
    xrefRenamer(FullArray, FileArray);
    /*Saves the book file with the updated component names*/
    BookFile.SimpleSave(BookFile.Name);
    /*When the book is closed, the BookFile variable will no longer function. Assigning the current books name to the "BookName" varibales will allow the book to be reopened*/
    BookName = BookFile.Name;
    /*All open files are closed*/
    closeAll();
    /*Curent book is reopened*/
    BookFile = openBook (BookName);
    /*All book files (now with updated names) are opened*/
    traverse(BookFile, openfile);
    /*Returns the updated book back to the location that originally called the fileNameReplacer function*/
    return BookFile;
function bookComponentRenamer(Component, FileArray) {
    /*The bookComponentRenamer compares the current book component with names on the FileArray (these are files that have name changes.
        If a match is found, that compent's name is changed within the book itself. This ensures that the names the book file is looking for reflect the updated file names created by this program*/
    for (var i = 0, len = FileArray.length; i < len; i++) {
        if (Component.Name === FileArray[i][1]) {
            Component.Name = FileArray[i][2];
function xrefRenamer(AllFiles, RenamedFiles) {
    var ThisFile,
        ThisXREF,
        NextXREF,
        OldName,
        NewName,
        XREFTest;
    for (var i = 0, len = AllFiles.length; i < len; i++) {
        /*Assigns the first cross reference in the current file to the "ThisXREF" variable*/
        ThisFile = AllFiles[i][0];
        ThisXREF = ThisFile.FirstXRefInDoc;
        /*Whether "ThisXREF" contains a valid cross reference (having a null value means the file has no cross references, or we have already
            looped through them all and can proceed to the next file in the FileArray)*/
        while (ThisXREF.XRefFile !== null) {
            /*Assigns the next cross reference in the file to the "NextXREF" variable*/
            NextXREF = ThisXREF.NextXRefInDoc;
            /*Loops through all of the files in the FileArray. This will let the current cross reference be compared to the files being renamed and see if
                there are any matches*/
            for (var j = 0, lenA = RenamedFiles.length; j < lenA; j++) {
                    /*Assigns the old name and the new name of the file being compared to cross references to the "OldName" and "NewName" variables respectively*/
                    OldName = RenamedFiles[j][1];
                    NewName = RenamedFiles[j][2];
                    XREFTest = ThisXREF.XRefFile.indexOf(OldName);
                    /*Tests if the current cross reference being examined links to the current comparison file*/
                    if (0 <= XREFTest) {
                        /*If yes, the cross reference is updated with the new name*/
                        ThisXREF.XRefFile = ThisXREF.XRefFile.replace(OldName, NewName);
                        /*Ends the comparison loop for this cross reference as the correct replacement has been found*/
                        break;
            /*Assigns "ThisXREF" with the value of the "NextXREF" the comparison loop starts again*/
            ThisXREF = NextXREF;
        ThisFile.SimpleSave(ThisFile.Name);

Rename files with a given string

Can anyone please help with the following code. I need to rename files with a given string. My code is:
import java.io.File;
public class RenameFile
     public RenameFile()
     void naming(File destFiles, String rename)
          System.out.println("destFiles:"+destFiles.getName());
          //output: destFiles:C:\temp\store\test.abc
          //output: destFiles:C:\temp\store\test.def
          //output: destFiles:C:\temp\store\test.ghi
          System.out.println("rename:"+rename);
          //output: rename:pmnr
          String name=destFiles.getName().toString();
          System.out.println("name:"+name);
          //output: name:test.abc
          //output: name:test.def
          //output: name:test.ghi
          String ren="";
          ren=name.replaceAll(name,rename);
          System.out.println("ren:"+ren);
          //output: ren:pmnr
My files I am getting from "destFiles" are:
C:\temp\store\test.abc
C:\temp\store\test.def
C:\temp\store\test.ghi
which I need to rename as:
C:\temp\store\pmnr.abc
C:\temp\store\pmnr.def
C:\temp\store\pmnr.ghi

"I seem to remember telling him this recently...
Probably but unless the OP takes an interest in the replies we are just wasting our time. "
Sorry, there has been a misunderstanding. I take full interest in all the replies.
About renaming, I had got the solution from sun.com, it works fine when I am passing all the files in the source directory to the destination directory. But since I am passing only a selected few files from source to destination, I have changed my code and the previous solution is not working now.
Anyway, below code is working and thanks a lot
String newFileName = destFiles.getName().replaceFirst("[^.]*", rename);
File newFile = new File(destFiles, newFileName);
destFiles.renameTo(newFile);

Unable to rename file's

i am trying to rename files in a folder nine
files name are taken from the text file dnine.txt
were for every occurance of a number in the filename
i wrote this code it reaches the condition as marked bold but it isnt renaming the files
plzz help
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
class nan
{     public static void main(String S[]) throws IOException
     Scanner track = new Scanner(new File("dnine.txt"));
     String [] Sme;
     Sme=new String[30];
     int i=0;
    while (track.hasNextLine())
    {Sme=track.nextLine();
i++;      }
File dir = new File("nine");
     String[] ch = dir.list();
     Arrays.sort(dir);
     String temp,temp2;
     File f[] = new File("nine").listFiles();
for (i=0; i<ch.length; i++)
for (int j=0; j<Sme.length; j++)
     {     temp2=""+j;
          temp="2X"+temp2+Sme[j]+".txt";
          *if(ch[i].indexOf(temp2)!=-1)          *
     {     File file = new File(ch[i]);
     File file2 = new File(temp);
     boolean success=f[i].renameTo(file2);
     System.out.println(ch[i]+success);

Are you getting some sort of error? If so copy and paste the entire error message here and indicate on which line the error occurs.
P.S. For the love of [insert deity], please make your code indentations consistent.

Difficult to Rename Files (Finder windows keep Refreshing)

Has anyone else noticed how difficult it is to rename files in a folder? It is almost as if Leopard's Finder keeps refreshing (or building thumbnails) or something. Here is my scenario:
- Browse to a folder (in my case a folder with large files)
- Hit enter on a file and start renaming the file
- After 1-2 seconds, finder jumps out of edit mode by itself (as if the page somehow refreshed)
- Hit enter again and keep on editing
- 1-2 seconds later, jumps out of edit mode again.
- Leave the window for 20-30 seconds
- Then hit enter, then it is easy to rename the file.
- Thereupon, immediately try to edit the next file, and bam, it exits edit mode after 1-2 seconds (almost as if the previous file rename triggered a 'refresh this entire view' event)
It is incredibly annoying to attempt to rename a bunch of files with Leopard.

Ah - I cant seem to get into the habit of "get info" to rename my files. It seems counter productive.
Is there any other workaround / fix to make the finder stop jumping me out of renaming a file?
It is incredibly annoying. I will get a few characters typed in, and it will jump out of editing... and then to add insult to injury, the folders is updated and the file jumps to its new alphabetical location in the list - So I have to go find the partially named file to finish the job.
People ask me if I like Windows or Mac. I say both have benefits and weaknesses. Renaming files is one of my Mac's weaknesses - it seems. It shouldn't be - it is a basic part of an operating system.
Help!

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