Insert Date in file name

[peternlewis]

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Working with the Finder Selection

In Keyboard Maestro, you work with the Finder Selection by using the For Each action to iterate over the selected files. From there, you can do whatever you would like with the files using the various file actions, or by processing with a script or other means. There is a smart action in the acton selector for For Each Path in the Finder Selection, which is simply a For Each action, preset to iterate through the Finder Selection collection. You can put whatever actions you like within that ac…

the third example shows renaming the file. You just need to change how you rename it. Instead of Search and Replace, just use:

Set variable FileName to text "%ICUDateTime%yyyy-MM-dd% %Variable%FileName%"

Set Variable to Text.kmactions (405 B)