


The name becomes selected, and you can select the part of the name you want to change, and type that part over, and click off of the file to make the change “take.” Do that 500 times and you will be ready to kill someone, or find a job building log homes… 😉Įnter “Otto” the Automator. If you do, you know this process really sucks! You have to click on the file to select it, then wait a second, click on the name again. So, if you are a Mac user, you probably know how to manually rename files. Read below for more information and a demo workflow project for batch renaming files super fast. Have you ever saved 50 files, only to find out your customer’s name is spelled wrong? Or, you forgot a vital piece of information, like the date, on your customer files? Perhaps, you need to make a crap load of images web friendly by taking out all of the spaces or capitalization? Well, Automator is how the nerdy people, like me… keep their sanity. One of the most powerful tools ever created by Apple has to be the Automator.
