

There is also a great Name Mangler Google Group where you can get your questions answered and some very advanced features and methods get discussed. (You may need to scroll down. All of that plus being able to use Regex to build very complicated renames. On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, click General in the sidebar, then click Sharing on the right. Once of the many things that makes using a tool like Name Mangler valuable is that you can undo your changes, view a history of your changes, and create a "droplet" that make running the name change on other files really convenient. Step 2: To start, you can drag and drop all the files you wish to rename in the Renamer app’s window. Drag a selection box over the files with your mouse or hold the Shift key and click them one by one.

Finally a way to batch rename photos using your iPad or iPhone. So if you type “IMG” into the Find field and “Wedding” into the Replace with box, it’ll swap the two and you’ll get something like “Wedding_2002.” Just note that this function works exactly as promised, so if you selected a file called, say, “T imGrant” among your “IMG” files, you’ll rename that as “T Weddingrant.I use Name Mangler 3 for file and folder renaming. Batch rename on iOS like you do on macOS. This option gives you the opportunity to find a string of characters in your file names and replace them with anything else.

If your original files were named something like “IMG_2002,” adding “Wedding” would result in either “WeddingIMG_2002” or “IMG_2002Wedding.” Replace TextĪ step up from adding text is Replace Text. As you type, a preview of what your file names will look like will appear in the bottom left of the dialog box (true for the other two options as well). It offers a single text box where you can type anything and tack it to the beginning or end of the existing selected file names via a drop-down menu to the right of the entry field.
