A Better Finder Rename 11 Help

Overview

• Quick Start
• Introduction (4m 35s)

Basic Use

• Use as a stand-alone application
• Using the Finder context menu
• Using the Hot Key combination in the Finder
• Drag & drop onto the application icon
• Drag & drop onto droplet

Renaming Actions

• What is a renaming action?
• Multi-Step Renames (4m)
• Filter Actions
• Filter Actions (3m 55s)
• Auto-Increment Counters
• Using Character Position & Ranges (4m 15s)
• Adding, Removing & Moving Text (7m 33s)

Setup

• Installing the application
• Activitating the A Better Finder Rename service in the Finder and other applications
• Understanding Third Party Software Installation & Activation

Droplets

• Important Droplets in macOS 13 Ventura & later (7m 16s)
• Using droplets
• Editing droplets
• “Silent” droplets
• What are droplets?
• Droplets tips & tricks
• Creating droplets
• Locking droplets

File Lists

• Saving file lists
• How to rename files using simple file list (6m 28s)
• How to rename files using names from a spreadsheet or a text file (5m 48s)
• Rename from file list
• Simple file format
• Tab-delimited file format
• Working with file lists
• Tab-delimited file list usage example
• Editing tab-delimited files in Microsoft Excel
• Using international characters in file lists
• Posix full path tab-delimited file list format

Special Digital Photography Features

• What is the EXIF meta-data information in my digital camera picture files?

Special Music Features

• Renaming using MP3/MP4/AAC tags

Interface Elements

• Main window
• Confirmation dialog
• Error dialogs
• Advanced sidebar

Presets

• Introducing Presets (3m 48s)
• What are presets?
• How do I save the current settings into a preset?
• How do I edit the name of a preset?
• How do I delete a preset?
• How do I load a preset?
• Applying presets without opening the main application
• Sharing, importing & exporting presets

File Name Conflicts

• What is a file name conflict?
• What is automatic file name conflict resolution?
• How can I configure how file name conflicts are resolved?

Software Updates

• What are automatic software updates?
• How do I check for a new update?
• How do I configure how often the program checks for updates?

Regular Expressions

• Regular expressions support in A Better Finder Rename
• The “Replace regular expression” action
• The “Re-arrange using regular expression” action
• Basic Regular Expression syntax

Rename “Mechanisms”

• Overview of rename mechanisms

Dealing with Large Rename Jobs

• Handling Large Renaming Jobs (6m 05s)
• Best Practices & How to Avoid Problems (7m 14s)
• Dealing with very large renaming tasks
• Dealing with very large image and document files

Tag-Based Renaming

• Overview of Tag-Based Renaming

Lexical Case Conversion

• Overview of Lexical Case Conversion

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