I could have renamed it something completely different like Work A, or Project Alpha, or something like that. So you can see that it added that space there between project and A. I'll hit Rename and it's going to rename all the files. So it's going to pick one of the files out, the first one that it finds that actually will change, and shows you what it looks like. So I'll have it search for ProjectA and I'm going to replace it with Project space A. So I'm going to, you know it's called ProjectA, maybe I want tp add a space to that. So in this case every file name has the word project in it. So the simplest thing to do is Replace Text. There are several different things that I can do with that. So let me select that and it brings up this little tool here. So that's where it's hiding.There is no menu item that's always there that always say Batch Rename of something like that. If I select multiple files, I'm going to use the Shift key to select all of these, if I go and I look there you can see that changes to Rename 6 Items. If I select a single file you can see I can rename that file. If you try to find a way to rename lots of files by looking through the menu items you're not going to find it because you need to select multiple files for it to appear. You actually can do it and it's pretty easy. It was added several years ago and people still have old information or look up old pages that say you can't do this on the Mac. You had to use more advanced techniques to rename bunches of files at a time. It's probably because for years there wasn't such a tool. I still get a lot of questions about this. Video Transcript: It's been awhile since I've talked about the Batch Renaming tool in the Finder on the Mac. Check out Batch Renaming Files in Mac Finder at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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