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  A Better Finder Rename 9 Icon   Combining multiple renaming actions into a multi-step rename
 

Sometimes a single renaming action is not enough.

Say you want to add "holiday " to the front of your new file names and make all file names lowercase, so that:

  • "Image 001.gif" becomes "holiday image 001.gif"
In this scenario, you will want to combine two renaming actions into a multi-step rename.
  1. activate the multi-step rename interface by clicking on the "Show Multi-Step Interface" button
  2. in the multi-step interface drawer that just appeared on the left, click the "+" button to add a new action
You can select which action you are editing by selecting the corresponding item in the multi-step drawer table.
  • click on the "+" button to duplicate the current action
  • click on the "-" button to delete the current action (there always needs to be at least one action)
  • click on the "X" button to delete all actions except for the current one
You can enable or disable action by ticking or un-ticking the checkbox in the "Active" column. This is especially useful for adjusting your settings as it allows you to preview only the results of selected actions. Naturally when all action checkboxes are un-ticked the file names will remain unchanged.

You close the multi-step drawer by clicking on the "Hide Multi-Step Interface" button. This option is only available when only a single action remains and this action is "active".

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