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Overwriting characters in filenames

You can use Renamer to overwrite text at specific character positions in filenames.

To overwrite characters in filenames:

Step 1

Drag the files you want to rename from the Finder to the file table.

Step 2

Click add-renamer.tiff and choose Characters.

Step 3

Click Overwrite.

Step 4

Type the characters you want to insert into the “Replacement” box.

Step 5

Enter the character position at which to insert the text in the “At position” box.

Step 6

Click Apply.

By default the character position is counted from the left of the filename, with 0 meaning the text is inserted before the first character, 1 after the first character, and so on.

You can change the character position to be counted from the right of the filename by clicking fromright.tiff. In this case a character position of 0 means the text is overwritten after the last character, 1 before the last character, and so on. This is useful if each filename has a different length and you want to, say, overwrite text before the second-to-last character (character position 2).

Related Topics

editing characters