Batch rename directories

[jjk454ss]

I have a bunch of directories organized by date. Some are 07/15/12 others are July 15, 2012. I'm looking for a quick/easy way to rename the ones in the word format to all numbers. Even if I have to rename everything to a different date format is fine, just so they are all the same. Any way to easily do this?

 

[appletechpro]

There's no "easy" way to do it per se. It would be necessary to use a scripting language such as Bash or PHP.

 

[jjk454ss]

There's no "easy" way to do it per se. It would be necessary to use a scripting language such as Bash or PHP.

Thanks. I hate to do all these one by one.

 

[merelli]

a better finder renamer 9

 

[jjk454ss]

a better finder renamer 9

I was looking at this since it was 1.99 yesterday. I didn't initially see a way it would covert the date format for me though. I'll keep playing with it. Thanks

 

[merelli]

I attached a droplet that will produce this output.
Just Drop the folders on the icon (with a better finder rename 9 installed) and it will rename the files. Clicking on the icon will allow you to modify the settings.

 

[jjk454ss]

I attached a droplet that will produce this output.
Just Drop the folders on the icon (with a better finder rename 9 installed) and it will rename the files. Clicking on the icon will allow you to modify the settings.

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Thank you, I really appreciate the help.

I just downloaded and tried it. What I did was unzipped the droplet you created into the folder that contains the folders I want converted. I took one folder and drag it onto the droplet, but I don't even know where it went. When I double click the droplet it tells me "the link between the host application and the droplet is broken, running the host application will fix this problem." But, running Better Rename 9 doesn't seem to fix it.

Thanks again.

 

[merelli]

You can recreate it on your copy the settings are

catagory - text
action - replace text

replace "January "
with "01/"

repeat for each month

then
replace ",20"
with "/"

 

[jjk454ss]

You can recreate it on your copy the settings are

catagory - text
action - replace text

replace "January "
with "01/"

repeat for each month

then
replace ",20"
with "/"

Thank you, I didn't realize how simple it is to do. It took a few steps, but it worked great and all the folder names match. Thanks again for the help.