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

In order for the “A Better Finder Rename 12” 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 12... 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 12 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 11 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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