Batch rename ?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

I'll have to second that "A Better Finder Rename" suggestion -- the trial version only lets you rename ten files or folders at once, but I registered mine and it's been a lifesaver.

Also, I'm not accusing anyone of anything, or implying anything at all, but a lot of MP3s that are downloaded through P2P applications have been renamed with a .zip extension so that they appear to be compressed files and not copyrighted music files.

[bobw]

Take a look at R-Name

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14404

[TotoLeHeros]

Hi!
I often have to do computer-assisted image analysis. This has to be done blindly, ie the investigator should not know the origin of the images and thus cannot influence (consciously or not) the result of the study. In order to do this, the name of the image is codified (renamed). The original name and the new one are kept in an Excel file until the end of the study. Now comes my question: is there any way to reaffect their original name to the files automatically with a Terminal command that would read the content of the table of conversion ? It is really tedious to do it by hand since I have to convert the names of 300-500 files each time!!!

Thkx for your suggestions

[mindbend]

I'm sure the terminal rename is doable, but I Have no idea how it would be done since I don't program. I guess that was a completely useless thing to say. Sorry to waste everyone's time.

I have a programmer that does very similar things for our websites, but he uses Perl or similar backend tricks with custom scripts for batch processing. Again, that doesn't help you.

Is there any reason you can't simply keep a duplicate folder of the unchanged images?

[bobw]

Don't know myself, but Applescript may do it. You could post here;

http://bbs.applescript.net/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl

A lot of helpful people there.

[TotoLeHeros]

Thank you Bobw, I will give a look to the 'applescript link'.
Minbed, I am not sure that I was clear enough. It is fine for me to keep a duplicate folder but I have to change all the names of the files in one of the folders...Anyway, thank you for your contribution. I am new in this forum and I got responses to my first post! I really appreciate!!

Regards!

[TotoLeHeros]

Minbed, i finally understood what was the misunderstanding point: in order to make it more clear, I should have written:

"The names of the images are codified during the aquisition. The codified name and the 'real name' are kept in an Excel file until the end of the study. Now comes my question: is there any way to reaffect their real name to the files automatically with a Terminal command that would read the content of the Excel table of conversion ? "

Thus, the files were never saved with their real names. The conversion table is really simple. It looks like:

Code Real Name
1 58
2 33
3 125
4 5
... ...

Thank you again for your help and sorry for the confusion...

[3mors]

Why not a pretty little application to do it?

Renamer4Mac 2.0

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17205