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GrumpyTrucker

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Jun 1, 2014
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I did a quick search but couldn't find anything on this. If I missed it please point me in the right direction.

One of the things I was looking forward to in 10.10 was the Batch Rename context menu item right in the Finder. I'm ripping a lot of my old DVDs into digital format and just rip them, then use an Automator Service I did to rename them. This works, but seems to have issues when run for the first time. Anyway, I thought the new menu item would be a great way to do this right in the OS. However, the options you can use to rename are nothing like the ones previously. Mainly you can't choose to have all numbers be 2 digits long. It sounds picky I know but if I'm renaming a 20+ episode season to (for example)

Arrow S01E01
Arrow S01E02
Arrow S01E03

and so on, all I can do with the new system seems to be S01E1, S01E2, S01E3 which may or may not mess up some media servers. As I say, it's not a major thing, since the old style of renaming options are still in Automator. I just thought it odd that the right click rename would be so limited in comparison.
 
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