bulk naming of files after folders?

[urbanforces]

hello. any decent app - free or not - that can add the name of the folder files are in. i have lots of photo and video files that are all named IMG, MAH, DSC etc depending on what i used to take them and have them in folders named for specific projects or subjects i'm working on. is there an app that can just rename all the files without me having to got through each folder using finder to add each folder name. that would be a huge pain. i have googled this and can't seem to see any mac software that will do it and am not familiar enough with automator to create a script. thanks

 

[960design]

...is there an app that can just rename all the files without me having to got through each folder using finder to add each folder name.

automator

i have googled this and can't seem to see any mac software that will do it and am not familiar enough with automator to create a script.

Spend a couple of minutes on youtube looking at automator tutorials. It is quite easy and will be a fantastic exercise for your brain.

 

[urbanforces]

automator

Spend a couple of minutes on youtube looking at automator tutorials. It is quite easy and will be a fantastic exercise for your brain.

ok will do. in the meantime, i downloaded better file rename and it has an option for "paths?". thanks

 

[ChrisA]

hello. any decent app - free or not - that can add the name of the folder files are in. i have lots of photo and video files that are all named IMG, MAH, DSC etc depending on what i used to take them and have them in folders named for specific projects or subjects i'm working on. is there an app that can just rename all the files without me having to got through each folder using finder to add each folder name. that would be a huge pain. i have googled this and can't seem to see any mac software that will do it and am not familiar enough with automator to create a script. thanks

Skip Automator. You need a shell script in a terminal window

foreach f ( *.IMG)
mv $f $(dirname $f)_$f
end

Something like those three lines should do it. This is why you don't see software to do this. But DO NOT copy/paste the above. read the man pages first and under it yourself first.

 

[NoBoMac]

Don't think dirname will give the actual folder, will get "." for the folder.

For the default bash shell, the following will work:

fdir=$(basename `pwd`)
for f in $(ls -1 *.jpg)
do
mv "$f" "$fdir"_"$f"
done

 

[urbanforces]

thanks for the replies but i think those terminal actions are beyond my programming threshold