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DESCRIPTION

Renamer4Mac allows you to easily and quickly rename a large number of files.

Renamer4Mac supports search and replace renaming, numbering files, and converting between lower, upper and mixed case. Renamer4Mac handles regular expression and case sensitive matching.

Available localizations: English, German, French, and Spanish.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.12.1:
  • Added howtos on replacing file extensions and removing whitespace characters from filenames to help
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Dare to be Creative Ltd.
Downloads:45,268
  - Version d/l:991
Utilities:File Management
License:Shareware
Date:18 Mar 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$26.00
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Apr 13 2009

AIKOUSHA  Another update, another test, more bugs (or should I say still the same bugs).

Presets are still a major nightmare...

You can only assign them AFTER you have renamed something, or they don't fix to the right search/replace strings.

If the preset loses the name you give it (which it does frequently), it says "new preset", until you TRY to rename it.

Attempting to rename a preset has severe issues, as simply clicking on a line forces whatever name was previously selected, and does not allow you to type in the proper name.

Even if the name shows properly in the list (as if you had successfully renamed it), it does not show properly on the pulldown button... I kept getting "New Preset" until after several rename attempts, and then it started inheriting the names of other presets, and never the right one.

If it has issues with non-alphanumeric characters that might be the problem, as the names I tried to assign were: "_[Suffix]", "[Prefix]_", " - to spc", "_-_ to spc", "_ to spc", and spc_spc to spc" (when the previous refused to name properly.

In the end the presets had "[Prefix}_" and seven instances of "spc-spc to spc", yet they all had different functions. but since I can't memorize what they do, if not labeled right, it's basically now a useless function. Thankfully I was only doing a test-drive.

IMO, common sense dictates that you should save presets BEFORE clicking the Rename button, and the list for renaming needs to work like other lists where double clicking while "editing" the list will allow renaming, and dragging (which doesn't seem to exist) will re-order the presets.

I may be picky, but the presets have never worked right (or at least within common sense) since it has appeared. I just keep with the old version, with the previous interface (no presets) since the next feature I would want to work with, would be the presets.

It's beautiful, otherwise.  
(Version 3.12.1)

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Mar 28 2009
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ZORRRO  olala, $26. Whats goin on? why not $100?

Con:High price, Interface overloded.

contains bugs.

Pro:many features  
(Version 3.12.1)

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Mar 8 2009

AIKOUSHA  This new version crashes whenever there is a name with kanji in it...

and what was the problem with "™" instances?

Oh, well.  
(Version 3.10.1)

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Mar 2 2009

XPLICIT  I wonder whether this app has been sold at all since charging 26$ for it.  
(Version 3.10.1)

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Dec 12 2008

PERSON1229  There are far too many renaming apps now. And nothing can beat Automator for me...  
(Version 3.8)

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Nov 4 2008
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BRUMM  $26.00 - for a file renaming tool - is just impertinent.

I recommend Name Mangler.  
(Version 3.7)

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Nov 4 2008

XPLICIT  You can get an application like Spore for 49.95$. So, especially compared to Spore, why is this batch renamer 26 bucks again?  
(Version 3.7)

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Dec 29 2008

NEUTRALZONE  This is a genuinely useful utility. You can justify the cost on the grounds that a good file renamer can potentially make back $26 of labor when applied to hundreds or thousands of files, where Spore has no function that I know of that could make back the price of either app.

That said, I stopped using Renamer4Mac when it changed to a paid app. Using NameMangler now.  
(Version 3.8.1)

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Nov 1 2008

MARK EVERITT  I know a lot of people like a nice GUI, but the terminal comes with your mac and with just a little effort to learn your way around, tasks like batch renaming become trivial.

Take a look at Sed:

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

The first example pretty much does everything you'd ever need in this program.  
(Version 3.6)

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Nov 3 2008

NEUTRALZONE  Sorry, SED won't work. No drag-and-drop integration with Finder and standard photo apps, must learn geeky syntax, can't see where you can number files, extreme potential for unchecked user error...I bought a Mac so that I wouldn't have to deal with nerdy command lines (I use NameMangler, which is as free as the Terminal but much less torture, but used to use Renamer4Mac which is also very nice).  
(Version 3.7)

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Nov 9 2008

MARK EVERITT  I don't get this allergic reaction some people have to the terminal. If you want a bit more finder integration then use

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24105/%3e-cd-to-...

to put you in a terminal in the current directory in finder and the rest is a sed one liner. I agree there's a lot of potential for user error, but you can get sed to echo what it'll do before wrecking up the place.

I guess my point is that nice GUIs go a long way, but at the end of the day there will always be those tasks that are better suited to the terminal. It's a shame I know. I'd rather have a nice graphical doodad to do this in a clever way using finder but nothing I've seen (forgetting cost for a moment) comes even close to the capabilities of sed. I'm not a computer scientist you know, and even my modest mind can cope with a bit of command line.  
(Version 3.7)

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Sep 8 2008
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XPLICIT  This app is a rip-off. The free version had all the functionality this app has now. Then the GUI was polished up a little and suddenly it costs 26 bucks. What for?

I recommend Name Mangler, does the job very well.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 27 2008

MR.ASH  Why pay for this software when Apples Automator does the same job for free?  
(Version 3.4)

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