A Better Finder Rename 10 Help

  A Better Finder Rename 10 Icon   Activating the A Better Finder Rename service in the Finder and other applications
 

In order for the "A Better Finder Rename 10" item to appear in the Finder context menu and in other appropriate contexts, you need to manually activate the service in the "Services Preferences…".

Proceed as follows:

  1. go to the Finder
  2. open the "Finder" menu and navigate to "Services", then to "Services Preferences…"
  3. in the "Services Preferences..." application, tick the "A Better Finder Rename 10…" checkbox (in the "General" section) to activate the service
  4. optionally use the application to define a hot key (such as Command-Shift-R) for the service
The service should now appear in the Finder's context menu.

If it does not, or if the item does not appear in the list, there's a few things to check:
  • the "A Better Finder Rename 10" application needs to be in the "Applications" folder
  • you may need to launch A Better Finder Rename by double clicking it once
  • you may need to click on the "Force Services Menu Update" button in the "Services Menu Item" tab of the A Better Finder Rename 10 Preferences to force an update of Mac OS X's services database.
  • you may need to log in and out (or restart) for the service to become available
These things might be necessary as Mac OS X checks all applications in the "Applications" and in the "Utilities" folders at start up to find out which applications define system services.

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