Subject: Re: [Name Mangler Talk] renaming file names in a folder

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 08:15:41 -0700

On Oct 26, 2016, at 4:31 AM, 'Sue Gille' via Name Mangler Talk <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I have 1,300 file names that I need to rename-- I would like to delete all charachters in every file name except the last 8 numbers ex: ########.pdf is all I need to keep and they are all named:

You can do this with a Remove action, starting at the end of the filename. Set it to remove 999 characters (basically everything, as no name can be over 256), starting at index 9, with the "Count from the" pop-up set to 'end.' Here's how it looks with the sample filenames you provided.

regards,
-rob.

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From: Sue Gille <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 06:31:36 -0500

I have 1,300 file names that I need to rename-- I would like to delete all
charachters in every file name except the last 8 numbers ex: ########.pdf
is all I need to keep and they are all named:

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