[X4U] Deleting part of file names
    Nick Scalise 
    nscalise at gmail.com
       
    Mon Jun  6 08:12:26 PDT 2011
    
    
  
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.
Finder Scripts will do that. They come with Mac OS X.
AppleScript Editor --> Preferences-->Show Script menu in menu
bar--->Show Computer scripts
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