Rename multiple files

The Finder in macOS allows you to rename files in batches. Kenny Hemphill shows how it’s done.

IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to rename lots of files at once in Finder YOU’LL NEED OS X 10.10 or later There are many reasons why you might find yourself needing to rename lots of files at the same time. Perhaps you’ve transferred photographs or videos from a memory card and want to be able to identify them better, or organise them by date, location, or occasion. Or perhaps you’ve used a disk recovery tool to retrieve data from a failed drive and want to quickly organise the files that you’ve saved from permanent deletion. Whatever the reason, until a few years ago, there was no way to do it without using a third-party tool or writing your own script or Automator action. In OS X…

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