File Rename Pro App Reviews

Just purchased File Rename Pro and would like to see something under the Sequence section 1. Alphamerical - A, B, C - AA, BB, CC - AA, AB, AC 2. placement of said # or letter - Name Image.pdf to Name 001 Image.pdf

This app works as advertised, but the user experience is not what it needs to be. Example: Let’s say I need to rename a folder of images in the format myname-001.jpg through 100. When the folder is dragged over, the default is myname - 1.jpg (starting at 1, which will not be sequential when more thant 100 files are involved, and also with spaces in the file names which don’t work for my client’s web uploads). No problem, let’s go to preferences to change. When you do this, the folder you dragged over is now dumped, so you need to drag it again. Ok, I can live with this… After a couple of trial and errors, the preferences are finally set as I like. Files renamed, perfectly as advertised. Let’s go to the next folder. But how?? The icon that I dragged the file to does not seem to appear again. Ok, I’ll close the app and drag again. Except now, all the stuff I set up is gone, and the file number across directories is now reset at zero. My point is that this app works as advertised, and I noticed that it will rename photo files with meta data if desired. This is truly unique. There are a lot of awesome features here. Maybe there is a “correct” way to do what I did that I missed. It’s likely that I am just doing it wrong. But - when you design apps for the Apple ecosystem, the workflow should be so intuituive that instructions are not required. I think this feature filled app will benefit if the author can focus more on the user experience in the next version (and test it out on some non-techies).

Use it for most of my needs and am very happy with it. Would definitely recommend. With the last update of OS X it stopped working, but support was very helpful to assist me in making it work again. Oddly, I had to completely reinstall the program from the app store. Great value for the the money!

I LOVE this program. It does one thing—rename files—and it does it superbly. I use it to rename all of my media files, using a system that includes a date, a serial number, and a code. This program has multiple options for how to pull metadata from your files to include in the title, as well as an option to include your own custom text. You can add these attributes in any order you wish. Once you get it set up, you can use the same set-up over and over, and it’s speedy—it will rename several hundred files in less than a minute. I’ve used it for about 100,000 files so far. For my workflow, digital asset management starts here.

Works great on El Capitan. Very happy with the product. Needs a bit playing around but after a short period of time you know how it works. Just use the preview so you see how it would look after the change.