A Better Finder Rename 8.22

Major Features:

1. "A Better Finder Rename" is ideally suited for Macintosh webmasters, users who need to transfer files from Windows or UNIX as well as for all other Macintosh users who deal with large numbers of files.
2. A Better Finder Rename is the most comprehensive file renaming solution for the Macintosh and transforms the tedious and time-consuming task of renaming multiple files into a simple matter of seconds.
3. The simple, easy-to-use interface makes it accessible to anyone, but hides an abundance of powerful renaming options.
4. A Better Finder Rename is the preferred renaming tool of many professional and amateur photographers and has over time grown an impressive array of features dedicated to manipulating sequence numbers (create sequence number lists, add and insert sequence numbers, pad them with 0s, add & substract from the existing numbers) and adding shooting dates & times to picture names.
5. In these operations you can exploit the shooting date & time extracted from the industry-standard EXIF digital camera meta-data stored in your JPEG, CRW, CR2 or NEF pictures.
6. Starting with version 7.0, you can combine several rename actions into a multi-step rename. This allows you to perform even the most complex renaming jobs in a single pass.
7. A Better Finder Rename allows you to create as many rename steps as you require and lets you edit and re-arrange them at will.
8. Add, remove, insert and replace characters and text.
9. Add, format, change and insert numbers, create numbered lists, etc.
10. Add file date and time, rename to date, etc.
11. Convert name conversions to Windows, DOS, Mac OS 9, etc.
12. Case conversions.

Benefits:

• Stunningly simple.
• • The user interface is designed from ground up to support even the most complex renaming tasks without sacrificing ease and speed of use. Simply drag the files you want to rename straight from the Finder into the large preview table or the application icon.. or use this Finder context menu and hot key.
  • Yet devastatingly effective
  • • A Better Finder Rename's huge array of renaming options are organized into 7 intuitive categories that cover all the text, character, position, conversion and truncation features that you would expect from a great file renamer. On top of this, A Better Finder Rename provides more advanced features that answer the prayers of many professionals and hobbyists alike.
    • Photographers in particular will find the advanced sequence number and date & time features a joy to behold. A Better Finder Rename knows how to extract EXIF shooting date and time information from your digital camera images and exploit them in creating sequence numbers or adding time and date information to the file name. Support for all major RAW formats (including JPEG, CRW, CR2, THM, NEF, TIFF, RAJ, ORF , MRW, DNG, PEF, SRF, etc.) extends this to professional photographers. Version 8 now also deals gracefully with multiple shots captured in the same second.
    • System administrators, web masters and other power users will appreciate the presence of advanced features, such as regular expression support, conversion to Windows NTFS/SMB compatible names, the ability to import file names from a database, a spreadsheet or any other source that can produce plain or tab-delimited text files. Finally, it allows you to save a record of the current and new file names to facilitate tracking your files.
    • Music lovers will be delighted by thisSometimes, however, a single renaming step is just not enough. Enter the multi-step renaming feature, that let's you combine and re-arrange multiple renaming steps into a single operation.
    • For recurring tasks, A Better Finder Rename allows you to save common settings to droplet mini-applications and apply them automatically to all files dropped upon them. Version 8 adds support for saving and loading presets to facilitate the creation of your own renaming library.

  • Beautiful inside & out: Version 8 takes file renaming to a new level of sophistication by introducing an advanced 64-bit multi-threaded renaming engine that solves many problems that other file renamers simply leave unaddressed. The database-backed renaming engine automatically resolves file name conflicts (when several files would share the same name) using a range of configurable parameters. The sequence in which files are renamed is optimized to avoid deadlocks which could occur when the order in which the files are renamed becomes significant. 

Enhancements: Fixes a display issue with file names that contain forward slashes.