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Advanced Which is fairly robust scripting tool that can take care of anything that the previous 6 couldn’t handle.Īnother cool thing is that all the above can be made into customized droplets that are totally fire and forget. Name Mangler can be used for many file renaming purposes many people use it to change the generic IMG (or whatever) prefix their camera applies to all photos.

Remove/Insert CharactersThis is a great feature, as I used to have to make several passes with the script to accomplish this, say you have files named Picture-01 through Picture-20, and you need to make the files appear as Pict_img_01, you can do it.Â.

Add Prefix/SuffixSimply add a prefix or suffix to the file with or without impacting the extension.

Set ExtensionRenames just the extension.

Change Case, which does exactly as the name implies.

Number Sequentially, providing exactly what I have been looking for, for a while sequentially rename a number files while applying a specific prefix or suffix to the file name, while not impacting the extension.

Find and Replace, which provide a simple character substitution rename, as well as a REGEX rename.

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The software comes with user-friendly mode, and. There are 7 different methods for renaming your files: Name Mangler is a piece of application that makes it easier for you to manage most of the renaming tasks.

You can also filter that down by folder or folder contents, as well a sort by various file attributes. The interface is simple utilizing simple drag and drop, or populate from the application, based on the current finder selection or path contents. So I was actually looking for secure file deletion tool, and I googled File Mangler, not seeing what I want now, but I do see “Bulk Rename” in one of the titles, and knowing how annoyed I get going though the file rename drill I find myself in on a nearly weekly basis, I follow the link that eventually leads me to Many Tricks Name Mangler, and I am pleasantly surprised to find a great utility that does exactly what I want it to do. That was the case for me with Name Mangler.Įvery now and then I have large numbers of files, that I need to rename to a sequential naming scheme, like 20080521_#.XXX, and I had some clunky scripts that worked, but were always a pain to deal with, so much so that I usually don’t even bother unless I’m dealing with more then 20 or so files.

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Moom is available for $10 directly from Many Tricks.I have been looking for something like Name Mangler for a while now, and as typical when you aren’t looking for something you find it. In this video, Im demonstrating how to go beyond basic file renaming tasks with A Better Finder Rename for macOS to combine multiple rename actions into a m.

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Of course, I use Moom in everyday work too, but savvy Mac users always notice it during presentations and ask me afterwards what it is. With Moom installed, hovering over your window’s green button brings up options to fill the screen, use the top, bottom, left or right halves, or another size based on segments of the screen.Ĭustom keyboard shortcuts and saved window layouts are just a few of Moom’s deeper features. So I rely on Moom to make quick work of these tasks. I don’t want to take away from the flow of the presentation when doing so.

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Whenever I give a presentation using my laptop, projecting video to a screen, I inevitably have to re-size and move windows around the limited screen space, especially if demonstrating more than one file or program (like when using Sibelius and Logic at the same time using ReWire). It goes for $19 either directly from Many Tricks or on the Mac App Store. Name Mangler’s simplicity belies its deep feature set and scripting options. I dropped the files into the interface, dragged the files into score order, and used a few of its many powerful features, like removing characters, change case, sequence (automatically adding numbers, letters or other characters), and find & replace - all of which can be run independently or chained together in a sequence (and saved as a preset, if you like).Īfter clicking “Rename 30 items…” it took less than a second to tame my filenames, and you can see the resulting name in the rightmost column above (click for a larger version).

Number of pages in the filename is no longer relevant because I will be modifying the filesĮnter Name Mangler.

Here are the things that drive me bananas (not good) that I was itching to fix: Subscribe: Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Pandora | PocketCasts | Podchaser | RSS | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneInĮarlier on this blog I described how to use tokens to custom name PDFs that are created from Sibelius (the same functionality exists if you should ever need to extract parts as separate files).īut what if you receive files from someone else that are already named in a less than helpful way? Here’s a typical one I received:

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