Renaming a Directory on an External Drive

Questions & Suggestions
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I am trying to rename a folder on an external drive.
This is the Action:
Rename File “/Volumes/Seagate/The Sims 2”|

To: /Volumes/Seagate/The Sims 2-backup|
Notify on failure.

This is from the Engine log file.
2024-08-06 10:42:06 File Rename action failed because destination “/Volumes/Seagate/The Sims 2-backup” is not just a file name (perhaps use Move or Rename option?) in macro “Trying” (while executing Rename File “/Volumes/Seagate/The Sims 2”).

I don't understand the error message exactly and even though I did look at the Wiki entry for Move or Rename, most of it seems oriented towards a file and I want to rename the Folder. Can anyone shed some light on this?

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From the wiki page:

The Rename option requites the to field to specify only a file name (without any slash /) and renames the file or folder without moving it.

So you want:

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3

worked fine, thanks very much for your help.

4

I just wanted to note that the entire macro is now working just fine and I am very pleased since I use the macro multiple times each day. It is saving me a lot of effort and I appreciate it.

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