A simple tip to help when renaming many files

Dec 12, '07 07:30:08AM

Contributed by: sforichard

I will often throw a bunch of files (web pictures, mostly) into a 'to be filed' folder for later renaming. The problem, however, is that when I rename a file, the Finder re-sorts the list, moving the renamed file. This forces me to scroll the window to find the next file to be renamed -- as it's now somewhere else in the window.

After all these years, I realized that if I first sort by file size in the Finder, the file list stays put and doesn't jump around so much, making the renaming task much easier.

[robg adds: As of 10.5, you can now sort a column view window, so this trick can work in those windows, too. I'll admit I'd never thought of this simple solution, despite running into the "jumping files" problem on a regular basis.]

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