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A simple tip to help when renaming many files
Authored by: bruceb on Dec 17, '07 09:23:18PM

What's the big deal, folks? Here's a trick has been part of the Mac OS for as long as I can recall:

Just change the folder to Icon View, rename the files in the folder as you wish, then change the folder view back to List or Column View.

As long as you don't have "Keep arranged by" checked in the View Options, the icons will stay put in the folder while you're renaming them.

Too many files in the folder in Icon View? Big icons allowing only a few files to be visible at at time? Having to scroll too much? Try this:

Just set the icon size smaller, at least while you're renaming files (Finder > View > Show View Options; click "This window only;" then adjust the icon size slider to a smaller setting). Finally, when you're done renaming files, just set the icon size back to whatever it was before.


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--bruceb



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