Super quick OSX Service — it takes selected items (i.e. in Finder) and renames them with the current date and time appended to the end. I created it to combat the persistent ‘photo.jpg’ filename of images I email myself from my iPhone. This is something that has irritated me for about 2 years, so I finally took 45 seconds to make this. It’s three Automator actions:
- Get Selected Finder Items
- Rename Finder Items (to add Date)
- Rename Finder Items (to add Time)
I make zero claims of uniqueness or creativity, but I was a little surprised to discover it took three actions. Maybe there’s a regex sub module i’m overlooking.
To use: download, unzip, put in ~/Library/Services and then select items, context-click (or find it in the Finder > Services menu) and get some timestamp on.
For those non-Terminal-inclined people out there, do this:
- open Terminal
- type:
- press Enter. Skip to 4 if you don’t get an error. If you get an error about the folder not being found, do:
- type:
- press Enter
- copy the .zip file from above into this folder
- double-click to unzip the workflow
- drag the .zip file to the trash
cd ~/Library/Services
cd ~/Library
mkdir Services
cd Services
open .
