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May 20, 2008

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Bulk-rename files with Name Mangler

Posted May. 20, ’08, 12:20 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Software

nameWrangler.jpgOkay, let’s do something fun: Instead of me spending an hour trying to make this post amusing and delightfully contrived, I’m just going to write it like every other run-of-the-mill news site—boring, bland, and completely devoid of wit and creative thought. Then, you can use your imagination to make it entertaining and special.

Sound good? Great! Here we go.

Say you have a bunch of files that need renaming—a batch of photos from your digital camera, for example, or business docs you want with a uniform naming scheme. Instead of manually editing the name of each and every file, you can use Many Tricks’ Name Mangler to rename all the files at once.

It has most of the tools you’d need for bulk-renaming tasks:

Find and Replace (including support for regular expressions); Number Sequentially; Change Case; Set Extension; Add Prefix/Suffix; Remove/Insert Characters.

Moreover, you can combine all of these using the Advanced renaming mode, which even comes with some extra features, such as conditional statements, nested counters, and more.

And you can use the app’s Droplets feature to store a set of renaming criteria and use them over and over again for different files.

Name Mangler requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and is available for free from the Many Tricks website.

See, now wasn’t that fun?

[via Life Hacker]


2 Comments

Anonymous said:

Pfft, Automator does the trick for me! better than installing lots of apps to do one thing...

May 20, 2008 1:14 PM
Dan Frakes Author Profile Page said:

Name Mangler is great; it's actually an updated -- and much-improved -- version of FileList, which we reviewed earlier this year over on Macworld proper.

May 20, 2008 2:02 PM

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