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Your problem, hardware or software, may not be exactly the same as that of the original poster of this older thread, and it can be very confusing for everybody if we try to answer more than one question in each thread, which can also result in you applying the wrong advice to your particular problem.
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I have the same problem! Used to work in leopard, now it doesn't work in snow leopard. The current Automator has many more options to choose from, and none of them work for renaming many files. http://screencast.com/t/OphXD009
Very frustrating. If anyone can figure this out, please let me know
Just purcahse NameWrangler..... much easier. So easy that it makes all of this conversation laughable. Literally took me 15 seconds to rename over 1,000 files, and all I had to do was tell it where and what.
Still a problem 10 years after the original post, in 10.12 Sierra.
My project is such that using a 3rd-party app is not an option. I need Automator's rename to work.
Automator Rename Finder Items NOT working in Leopard
