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is there any way to make the script to run once a day, go to selected folders and to rename the files in those folders to contain a specific string at the very beginning of the file name UNLESS they already contain such string? Imagine I have a folder named X007-007 and throughout the day I would save several files in the folder, at the end of the day I need all files to start with X007-007-a_v1 (where A would) be the number of the file in the folder (v1 is just for a version 1). congratulations for successfully accomplishing the batch renaming task :)ĭisplay alert "All done! Renamed " & index & " files with ' " & new_name & "' for you. Set the name of this_file to new_name & index_prefix & index & file_extension as string let's rename our file, add the sequential number from 'index' and add the file-extension to it

we have to re-add the original file-extension after changing the name of the file! yup, we are currently processing a file that has a file-extension "" means there is no file-extension present. lets check if the current file from our list (based on index-number) has even any file-extension 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 Repeat with index from 1 to the count of 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. Set all_files to every item of ( choose file with prompt "Choose the Files you'd like to rename: " with multiple selections allowed) as listĭisplay dialog "New file name: " default answer "" this is required to break the filename into pieces (separate name and extension) Open in AppleScript Editor and save as Application