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A Better Finder Rename
A Better Finder Rename 9.04
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(24) 4.583333333333333

File, photo, and MP3 batch renamer.   Shareware ($19.95)
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A Better Finder Rename is the most complete renaming solution available on the market today. That's why, since 1996, tens of thousands of hobbyists, professionals and businesses depend on A Better Finder Rename to organize and maintain files.

A Better Finder Rename's user interface supports complex renaming tasks without sacrificing ease and speed of use. Simply drag the files you want to rename straight from the Finder into the large preview table or the application icon.. or use our Finder context menu and hot key.

The Instant Preview feature eliminates guesswork
What's New
Version 9.04:
  • Now supports EXIF date time digitized timestamps.
Requirements
  • Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.6 or later
  • 64-bit processor


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Download A Better Finder Rename 7.9.9.3 for Mac OS X 10.4



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A Better Finder Re... User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 9.x:
(24)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
(235)

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theangel73 reviewed on 15 May 2012
Simple but *very* complete, easy to use software... Once you try it you can't do without it. Droplets are really useful, and you have so many options to rename every single detail in the filename! And it's also quite fast! Thank you!!
[Version 9.04]


burypromote

+81

Old_guy reviewed on 18 Apr 2012
Still the best in what it does! Worth every penny.
[Version 9.03]


burypromote

+7

Widi65 reviewed on 21 Mar 2012
I did buy it long years ago with foreverupgrade and site license ! did save me now 1000's of hours in renaming, also when complex needs. it's a must for everyone who needs a rename-tool (like photographers as I am), no other tool is that complete and the pricing is awesome ! nearly never crashed and great, fast customer support !
[Version 9.02]


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+2

+56

M.Luther reviewed on 29 Feb 2012
Great piece of software that has no equal. I don't need to use ABFR that often, but when I do, it simply does what I need it to do -- batch rename files with ease.

The fact that the developer is offering a free update for purchases since Jan 1, 2011, INCLUDING the MU Spring '11 bundle from a year ago, that is a classy move. Thank you!
[Version 9.0]


burypromote
+1

+35

June8 reviewed on 29 Feb 2012
Seriously, the name of this application should be "The Best Finder Rename".

This version has powerful new features which I wouldn't even imagine that I would need of them.

Thanks to the developer!
[Version 9.0]


burypromote
+1

+192
D9 commented on 29 Feb 2012
Note: Version 9 is a free upgrade for customers who purchased after the 1st of January 2011 or own a forever upgrade. For anyone else, the upgrade costs $9.95 for single and $19.95 for single lifetime.

/
[Version 9.0]


burypromote
+1

+47

Werty reviewed on 29 Feb 2012
In October 2009, when I asked the developers the implementation of a manual sorting, this was their answer:
"We do occasionally get requests for such a "manual sorting" feature and it could be quite useful as long as you don't have very many files (manually sorting 1000 files would become tiresome very quickly).

Unfortunately such a sort does not integrate well within the framework of the product which is designed along a more batch criteria based philosophy.

We do have a design that would graceful combine both worlds, but it would require a LOT of work both on the backend and the UI side. As such it will not be introduced in a minor update, but will have to wait for at least version 9 (a year or two away at least), but the feature scope for that is far from being finalised.."

Two years and a half from then they did it, and to me this app is now perfect.
I also loved their honesty on offering a free update to whoever purchased a license after January 1st, 2011, thus including the customers MacUpdate Promo 2011 Spring Bundle. Great job guys.
[Version 9.0]


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+1

+2

Christa_1980 reviewed on 04 Jan 2012
Plain simple and useable.
Tops
[Version 8.94]


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+1

+4
discmonkey commented on 04 Jan 2012
Sure wish it supported AppleScript.
I have a lot of automated tasks that could benefit from this app.
[Version 8.94]


burypromote
-7

-5

softblackstar reviewed on 21 Dec 2011
It's a bit complicated to customize the various renaming options.
[Version 8.93]

1 Reply

burypromote
+1

+97
xXAkumuXx replied on 01 Mar 2012
So... figure it out... like the rest of us or contact the developer.. Hardly warrants two and a half stars.
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+1

+1
Kglunt had trouble on 05 Oct 2009
I accidently put a photo on the program and now it shows up on all my temps on changing one set to change name, can you email my fix, love to use this program
[Version 8.32]


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+437
Corpsecorps had trouble on 10 Apr 2008
I couldn't get the contextual menu to send files to ABFRX so i checked here and found out there was a newer version.

Installed it. No change.
.
[Version 7.9.7.1]

3 Replies

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+114
Lee123 replied on 25 Jun 2008
Why don't you just report this to the developer? This is not the place for bug reports or technical help. Looking at your history of comments it appears you never actually give a review but rather an implied negative comment or technical request.
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+437
Corpsecorps replied on 25 Jun 2008
Untrue. I wrote 4 reviews with mostly high ratings, though they were brief.

Thrice i commented on problems, and those weren't intended as reviews, that's why i labelled them "Troubleshooting".

I have/will contact the dev when i have time.
burypromote

+114
Lee123 replied on 25 Jun 2008
Fair enough.
burypromote

+437
Corpsecorps had trouble on 16 Oct 2007
Choosing files to be renamed with the contextual menu works only once.

If ABFR is running, the contextual menu will bring it to the front but the files don't appear.
[Version 7.9.3]


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+437
Corpsecorps had trouble on 15 Jun 2007
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Since upgrading to 7.8.1, i'm getting THREE duplicate contextual menu items, though i made sure only 1 was present.
.
[Version 7.8.1]

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+437
Corpsecorps replied on 16 Jun 2007
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Went away for a while after a system restart, but it's obviously not playing nice with some other contextual menu.

The triple entry returned.
.
burypromote

+437
Corpsecorps replied on 29 Aug 2007
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Pardon, moi.

Was APE's fault, not ABRFX.
burypromote

+437
Corpsecorps had trouble on 26 Feb 2007
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Has usually worked fine, but lately the Contextual menu is sometimes bringing up the window, sometimes not.

And when it does, the app seems to have forgotten how it was previously set, so it's in a different rename mode, or the multi-step interface is active though it wasn't before.

(recently switched to Mac Pro - 10.4.8)
.
[Version 7.6.5]



+1

greenegative rated on 13 May 2012

[Version 9.03]




max1234 rated on 10 May 2012

[Version 9.03]




Madamsmusic rated on 24 Apr 2012

[Version 9.03]



+15

Monzterdk rated on 20 Apr 2012

[Version 9.03]




Jeonghoon_Cha-evej rated on 04 Apr 2012

[Version 9.02]




max1234 rated on 02 Apr 2012

[Version 9.02]




Harzlmann rated on 31 Mar 2012

[Version 9.02]




Gregp rated on 29 Mar 2012

[Version 9.02]



+6

Elsamiro rated on 22 Mar 2012

[Version 9.02]




j-worker rated on 20 Mar 2012

[Version 9.02]


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Version Downloads:2,792
Type:Utilities : File Management
License:Shareware
Date:15 May 2012
Platform:Intel
Price: $19.95
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A Better Finder Rename is the most complete renaming solution available on the market today. That's why, since 1996, tens of thousands of hobbyists, professionals and businesses depend on A Better Finder Rename to organize and maintain files.

A Better Finder Rename's user interface supports complex renaming tasks without sacrificing ease and speed of use. Simply drag the files you want to rename straight from the Finder into the large preview table or the application icon.. or use our Finder context menu and hot key.

The Instant Preview feature eliminates guesswork and costly errors and helps you find the right settings quickly and accurately by providing as-you-type feedback.

A Better Finder Rename offers a complete set of renaming options that are organized into 15 categories covering all the text, character, position, conversion and truncation features that you would expect from a file renamer, but it does not stop there.

Photographers use the advanced sequence number and date & time features to clean up their portfolios or prepare photos for delivery to their client. A Better Finder Rename knows how to extract EXIF shooting date and time information from digital camera images and exploit them in creating sequence numbers or adding time and date information to the file name. Support for all major RAW formats (including JPEG, CRW, CR2, THM, NEF, TIFF, RAJ, ORF , MRW, DNG, PEF, SRF, etc.) extends this to professional photographers. A Better Finder Rename also deals gracefully with multiple shots captured in the same second.

Version 9 adds support for extracting camera, lens, photo and color meta-data tags and using them in the new tag rename feature. You can now also re-order sequence numbers, alphabetical sequences or roman numeral series directly through dragging and dropping items in the preview list.

System administrators, web masters and other power users will appreciate the presence of advanced features, such as regular expression support, conversion to Windows NTFS/SMB compatible names, the ability to import file names from a database, a spreadsheet or any other source that can produce plain or tab-delimited text files. Last but not least, the ability to save a record of the current and new file names greatly facilitates tracking your files.

Music lovers can use the built-in MP3/AAC support to exploit the id3 meta-data tags embedded in your most music files to create their own naming schemes for their music collection. Meta-data information from MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, APE, M4V and iTunes music store files are supported.

The multi-step renaming feature allows multiple renaming steps to be combined to deal with complex renaming jobs in a single operation. Unlike other tools, A Better Finder Rename allows any number of renaming actions to be combined, re-ordered, copied and deleted.
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