Macro to prepend YYYYMMDD

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Hi @TrukMeister. If you are also commonly enclosing files in new folders, you might find a macro I recently shared useful:

MACRO: Enclose Tool – Finder/Bloom/Path Finder, v1.1

DESCRIPTION When working in Finder (or Bloom or Path Finder), I frequently need to enclose a selection of files and/or folders—referred to hereafter as items—inside a new folder and give that folder a meaningful name. The enclosing folder name might be date-based: today's date, the current date/time, or an item's modification or creation date/time. Creation dates can come from the file system or from embedded image and/or video metadata, depending on the context. Other times the name should re…

I often create folders named (or prefixed with) YYYY-MM-DD. The macro contain a setting that allow you to easily change that to YYYYMMDD format.