That way, you can rename the keepers as a continuous sequence, without any gaps between one image number and the next.
In that tutorial, though, I mentioned that it's often better to wait until you've had a chance to browse through your images and delete the ones you don't plan on keeping before renaming them. Previously, we learned how to transfer photos from your camera or memory card to the computer using the Adobe Photo Downloader, and we saw that one of the features available to us in the Photo Downloader is the ability to rename the files as they're being transferred. Batch renaming files has never been incredibly easy, or even possible at all, out of the box in OS X.In this tutorial, we'll learn how to quickly rename multiple image files at once using the powerful Batch Rename feature in Adobe Bridge, a free companion program included with every version of Photoshop. If you want to batch rename files, you have to look outside, to third party apps or maybe Automator workflows. We’ll look at two apps that accomplish the same task, batch renaming files, in different ways, and we’ll even create our own application in Automator that batch renames files exactly how we want it done. There are a few different reasons I can easily think of to batch rename files, including renaming images so they make more sense, organizing documents within a folder, or separating out files by the date they were created. If all of your images are called something like IMG_0974.JPG, that’s not very descriptive and isn’t going to help you find all your snaps from your trip to Costa Rica. Similarly, when I’m researching, I like to prepend a topic keyword to the filenames of all my accompanying documents, so I know what belongs to which project.ĭoing that by hand, especially to dozens of files and folders, is slow going, and Mac OS X hasn’t provided a way for us to batch rename files natively. That’s okay, because we can still get the job done. We’re just going to need some extra tools.īefore we get started, though, let’s talk backup.
Hopefully, you’re already backing up your computer, but because it’s possible in the course of batch editing filenames to accidentally rename your files something weird, unrecognizable, and completely unusable, it’s not a bad idea to also copy your files to a new folder before you get started.
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