Batch File Renaming

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#1

i know this may sound like a common problm but i just can not figure it out… i have a folder on my desktop that i need to duplicate and then totally rename all the files is it… i dont want to add a string to the start or the end… i want to do this on a regualar basis as the folder contains text files i download regulary.

for example the original files as:
/Desktop/downloads/filename_1.txt
/Desktop/downloads/filename_2.txt
/Desktop/downloads/filename_3.txt
/Desktop/downloads/filename_4.txt

and it needs to be:
/Desktop/downloads_copy/001.txt
/Desktop/downloads_copy/002.txt
/Desktop/downloads_copy/003.txt
/Desktop/downloads_copy/004.txt

#2

what do you have so far ?

#3

ummm… no freaking idea!!!

#4

Hi Sin

There’s plenty of people on here who can do this better i’m sure but this could be something similar to what you want.

tell application "Finder"
	set folder_one to choose folder ---> alias returned / downloads folder
	set folder_two to choose folder ---> alias returned / downloads_copy folder
	duplicate every file of folder_one to folder_two
	set files_of_folder to every item of folder_two as alias list
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in files_of_folder
		set name of (item i of files_of_folder) to ("00" & i & ".rtf") as string
	end repeat
end tell