A Better Finder Rename 8.25

Major Features:

1. 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 Finder context menu and hot key.
2. 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.
   • 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.
   • Music lovers will be delighted by MP3/AAC renaming feature that allows you to exploit the id3 meta-data tags embedded in your music files to create your own naming scheme for your music collection.
   • 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.
3. Beautiful inside & out - Offers advanced 64-bit multi-threaded renaming engine that solves many problems that other file renamers simply leave unaddressed.
4. New in version 8
   • Completely re-designed single window user interface
   • New industrial strength, multi-threaded, database-backed renaming engine
   • Automatic file name conflict resolution
   • Saveable Presets
   • Automatic software updates

Enhancements:

• This release contains multiple bug fixes for rare multi-threading issues:
• • preview thread could potentially become stuck
  • preview thread could potentially fail
• The new release also improves the regular expression matching algorithm to more elegantly deal with unicode composed character sequences (e.g. French accents, umlauts, etc).

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard-only