Batch rename from "First Last" to "Last, First"

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  1. Marybru79, May 8, 2008

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    I have a bunch of folders by name "first last", and I want them to be "Last, First".

    It seems like it should be easy enough to program - Select last word, add "," and a space, move to front, delete ending space.

    I was surprised not to find an app that does this. Maybe I'm the only crazy person who cares to do this. :)
     
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  2. leodavinci0, May 8, 2008

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    Give Automator a try

    I'm at work now, so I can't try it, but this sounds simple enough for the application Automator to handle. Does anyone know if Automator can do this?
     
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  3. notjustjay, May 8, 2008

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    If not Automator, an Applescript could probably be written that can do the text processing on the folder names.
     
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  4. jcs1088, May 8, 2008

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  5. Marybru79, May 13, 2008

    Marybru79 thread starter macrumors newbie

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    Ok, so my next question would be, how do I select the last word. Each name is a different number of characters so setting it to "last 5 characters" or something like that, won't work.
     
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