Automator – Rename Files & Label Them

Today’s Automator Action: Rename Files & Label Them

You have a shit load of pictures to be renamed. You wanna label them with colors. What do you do ? Automator, to the rescue !

Follow these simple steps and be able to Rename Files and also Label Them:

  • Follow the basic steps from the previous Automator post
  • Add Rename Finder Items and Label Finder Items from the Automator Library
  • Customize them as you want and voila !

Here’s a small example:

I have 100 odd pics here in a folder called Party ! I want them to renamed with Party as suffix and numbers as postfixes, beginning from 1. Here’s what I did to achieve that:

As you can see from the above screenshots, you can add more than one Automation at the same time depending upon what you want it to do for you.
That’s all for now ! Try tweaking that Record button ;)

~ by a5hr1th on August 12, 2009.

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