[X4U] delete identical characters in file name

[stephen e. schwartz]

automator does it. easy learning curve. Application finder; get 
selected files; replace "this text" with ""

select all the files whose names you want changed and run it.

-steve

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>Message: 3
>Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 09:55:54 -0500
>From: Jim Moldenauer <m1sc at wi.rr.com>
>To: x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
>Subject: [X4U] Deleting part of file names
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>How do you delete the first 10 words of the file names? I have over 
>200 files with the same first 10 letters. The rest of the names are 
>alphabetical but the first 10 letters are redundant.
>Command F (find) won't do it. I read up on AutoScript but that looks 
>like it do it if it was folders. I could not see where I could do it 
>with file names. It probably would if I could understand it. It 
>doesn't speak about file names in particular. This is strange 
>because I can't find out how to eliminate them. Any help would be 
>appreciated.
>jim
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>Message: 4
>Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:12:26 -0500
>From: Nick Scalise <nscalise at gmail.com>
>To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
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>Subject: Re: [X4U] Deleting part of file names
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>On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Jim Moldenauer <m1sc at wi.rr.com> wrote:
>>  How do you delete the first 10 words of the file names? I have 
>>over 200 files with the same first 10 letters. The rest of the 
>>names are alphabetical but the first 10 letters are redundant.
>>  Command F (find) won't do it. I read up on AutoScript but that 
>>looks like it do it if it was folders. I could not see where I 
>>could do it with file names. It probably would if I could 
>>understand it. It doesn't speak about file names in particular. 
>>This is strange because I can't find out how to eliminate them. Any 
>>help would be appreciated.
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>Finder Scripts will do that. They come with Mac OS X.
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>AppleScript Editor --> Preferences-->Show Script menu in menu
>bar--->Show Computer scripts
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>Nick Scalise
>nscalise at gmail.com
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