Quickly rename a selection of files on a Mac

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I download a lot of stuff to use in Photoshop and Illustrator. But I really need to label these files with where they came from so I can work out who to credit and to work out which ones are mine and which belong to others. So, it’s fairly easy to rename files on the Mac (can we say File > Rename) but that doesn’t work for multiple files.

Here’s how to do that, and bulk rename your files.

1. Open Finder and select the files to rename

2. Click the Gear icon (it’s the Action button) at the top of the Finder window

3. Click Rename [n] Items

4. When the dialog opens, choose to Replace a piece of text with something else, to Add some text before or after the current filename, or choose Format to create a new filename format for these files.

5. Select your preference, complete the details and click Rename

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In all it kind of makes Windows users want to weep! If we had that granular dialog to rename files life would be so much better.