Automating the re-naming of some pdf files

[mrpasini]

@drlarryrichard

Thank you to this community for any help you can offer.

This macro will rename files selected in the Finder using a regular expression:

Rename Files Mystery

Thanks for confirming the behavior, Peter. That's really all I was asking about. After exploring the issue a bit, I found a little code that works around the problem nicely. I wrapped that Perl solution (the green macro) into your original macro, replacing the Keyboard Maestro search and replace action: Rename Files with Regex Support.kmmacros (8.9 KB)

You can test various regular expressions to make the conversion you want at https://regex101.com/ or in BBEdit.