Hi Everyone! I have a folder that has files in and I need to change the names of the files as follows: Original Name: Sales_Invoice_SI-123_Canon Camera Change to: 123 xxxxx So I want to delete the part that says Sales_Invoice_SI- and change the part that says _Canon Camera to xxxxx (so the file …

You can't have more than one file in a folder with the same name, so they can't all be named "123 xxxxx" therefore what were you wanting the "xxxxx" to be? Perhaps if you give an actual example without using a variable like "xxxxx" I might understand.

[image] Margate: So I want to delete the part that says Sales_Invoice_SI- and change the part that says _Canon Camera to xxxxx (so the file when renamed will be 123 xxxxx) Select the files and right click (or Command-Click if you don't have a right mouse button) to pull up the Finder's contex…

[image] Margate: Sales_Invoice_SI-123_Canon Camera Ah, no good point! I should have mentioned that each file will have a different name such as SI-123, SI-124, SI-125 etc.

[image] mrpasini: Rename macros Ok, I will look into regular expression. Thank you for your help : )

[image] Margate: Ok, I will look into regular expression. Thank you for your help : ) Regular expressions -- indeed, almost every way of doing what you want -- rely on patterns. So first find the pattern you want to match. That could be as simple "the bit of the Local_theText that starts with…

See Rename Files Mystery for some regexp-powered file renaming macros. I use my Perl version here.

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