- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Limited to renaming 10 files at a time.); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5/Server/10.6/10.5 PPC/Intel/10.5.6 Intel/10.6 Intel
- Date added: December 20, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,339
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on August 11, 2009
This awkwardly named utility can be extremely useful in some very specific situations. Anyone who needs to rename large batches of files on a daily basis--especially Web developers and anybody working with lots of photos or audio files--should definitely check out A Better Finder Rename. Most of what this app does can also be done with the Finder and Automator, but nowhere near as quickly nor as easily.
ABFR offers a huge number of renaming options, everything from modifying text and adding sequence numbers to changing formats and renaming files based on date and time (especially great for photographers). Plus you can specify, apply, and save multiple renaming steps, and ABFR can automatically resolve file name conflicts. You can do all this using ABFR's as a standalone application with a new single-window interface, or you can access its functionality through the Finder's contextual menus. ABFR also offers a quick preview feature (which can save you from making sweeping "batch errors"), and it even supports regexes for more geeky users. The only drawback of ABFR is its price, which is relatively steep if this isn't "must-have" functionality for you.
Publisher's description
From publicspace.net :A Better Finder Rename is the most complete renaming solution available on the market today. That's why, since 1996, 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 7 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. Version 8 now also deals gracefully with multiple shots captured in the same second.
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 and iTunes music store files are supported.
What's new in this version:
The new release fixes a minor bug that could cause the preset description not to be saved correctly.
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