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DESCRIPTION
A Better Finder Rename is the most complete renaming solution available on the market today. That’s why, since 1996, thousands of hobbyists, professionals and businesses depend on A Better Finder Rename to organize and maintain files.
A Better Finder Rename's user interface supports 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 our Finder context menu and hot key.
The Instant Preview feature eliminates guesswork and costly errors and helps you find the right settings quickly and accurately by providing as-you-type feedback.
A Better Finder Rename offers a complete set of renaming options that are organized into 7 categories covering all the text, character, position, conversion and truncation features that you would expect from a file renamer, but it does not stop there.
Photographers use the advanced sequence number and date & time features to clean up their portfolios or prepare photos for delivery to their client. A Better Finder Rename knows how to extract EXIF shooting date and time information from 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. Last but not least, the ability to save a record of the current and new file names greatly facilitates tracking your files.
Music lovers can use the built-in MP3/AAC support to exploit the id3 meta-data tags embedded in your most music files to create their own naming schemes for their music collection. Meta-data information from mp3, aac and iTunes music store files are supported.
The multi-step renaming feature allows multiple renaming steps to be combined to deal with complex renaming jobs in a single operation. Unlike other tools, A Better Finder Rename allows any number of renaming actions to be combined, re-ordered, copied and deleted.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 8.22: This release fixes a problem relating to the display of file names that contain forward slashes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or later
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| A Better Finder Rename User Reviews (60 posts) | Write A Review |
 | May 15 2009 |
CORPSECORPS Since upping to 8.18, typing the hotkey will bring up the window, but no selected files appear in the list, even though I have since restarted the system. The contextual menu will still send selected files to ABFRX.
(Version 8.18) | |
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 | May 16 2009 |
MISHA Try uninstalling and re-installing the hot key plug-in.
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| May 18 2009 |
CORPSECORPS Good idea. 8^) Still not working, unfortunately.
(Version 8.18) | |
| May 18 2009 |
MISHA Bummer. Contact Frank, he's great about helping customers.
(Version 8.18) | |
| Apr 24 2009 |
LEPPE Is it possible to get version 8.15 back? The 64 bit mode worked great on my PM G5! Version 8.16 crashed and only runs in 32 bit modus. Now I've updated to version 8.17 and it seems the program has lost it's 64 bit support :(... Which is to bad because it was fast! The What's New is a bit confusing, but true: "Version 8.17: fixes a launch problem on PowerPC G5 Macs." Yes it did, since version 8.16, but we lost 64 bit support :(. This update (8.17) is like a huge step back... Please give us back 64 bit support... I've tasted the speedbump in 8.15 and I was very impressed. | |
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 | May 18 2009 |
FRANK REIFF The trouble is the Sparkle auto-update framework crashes in 64-bit mode on the PowerPC G5.. If you've got a moment, get in touch with me at reiff@publicspace.net; I don't have a G5 testing machine at the moment (both PowerMacs blew their cpus), but there's a new version of Sparkle so it's possible they've fixed the bug..
(Version 8.18) | |
| Apr 23 2009 |
LEPPE Works great in 64 bit mode on my PM G5! Thank you for moving to 64 bit architecture. The speedbump is great if you dealing with a lot of files. One of the few, but better, 64 bit apps I ever used on a G5 PowerMac! Greetz & thanks again for the effort!
(Version 8.16) | |
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 | Mar 28 2009 |
ZORRRO A good program but the interface is over loaded. You need a long time to figure out how it realy works. it has many features.
(Version 8.1.3) | |
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| Apr 2 2009 |
LOUNGE DELUXE I find the UI very intuitive, and I've never needed the manual at all. If you have trouble apprehending all possibilities of ABFR then I suggest you simply drag a file to the left column and start to play around with the different menus and fields. The right column will show the change to the file immediately, so it should become clear what all the menus and fields can do for you and your files.
(Version 8.1.4) | |
| Apr 22 2009 |
HMURCHISON Would you expect any less for $30? The best thing for noobs (and I'm one of them) is to create droplets for often used renaming jobs. Thus you are spared the plethora of choices and can utilize your droplets or contextual menu. No one said there would not be a learning curve but this app really isn't that difficult. You just need to take it step by step and identify what naming structure you want for a given data-type.
(Version 8.15) | |
| Apr 23 2009 |
ST00P!D M0NK3Y And because you're lazy, you gave it two stars? Nice.
(Version 8.16) | |
| Mar 27 2009 |
IAMDORIAN This is a great utility. When you need to rename batches of images (I do this very often) then there's no better solution, and the developer is constantly tweaking this to make it better. It's true that by making continual updates developers can give their applications maximum user exposure, and thereby increase sales, but this is one of the real benefits of such sites. Let's face it, it's great when everybody wins! Keep up the good work!
(Version 8.1.3) | |
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| Feb 19 2009 |
ST00P!D M0NK3Y Great program. :) Helped me finally organize thousands of files. Now I don't have to worry about it anymore. Saved me hours, days... weeks? Thanks. :)
(Version 8.1.1) | |
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| Feb 9 2009 |
MAGOSILVAN I agree with CORPSECORPS. It already was the complete renamer and the developer continues to improve it: this time in speed.
(Version 8.1) | |
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| Jan 27 2009 |
CORPSECORPS What i said about version 7 still stands. I wouldn't have paid the price if i didn't do a LOT of renaming, but if i didn't, any simple tool would do. If one is a heavy batch-renamer, this is THE tool to have. I haven't found any changes in version 8 that weren't a step UP!
(Version 8.0.9) | |
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| Jan 15 2009 |
LEO SPILL What's with the new icon ? What's that got to do with renaming files ? Is it supposed to be the developers blood ?
(Version 8.0.8) | |
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| Jan 17 2009 |
CORPSECORPS Unknown. But it looks better than the old one.
(Version 8.0.8) | |
| Jan 15 2009 |
MAGOSILVAN OK, it's not the cheapest one and surely a rebate will be welcome, but neither Ferrari is...
(Version 8.0.8) | |
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