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FileWrangler - 1.1

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All Time:	(4.4)
Version 1.1:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	1.1
Release Date:	2004-12-03
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 1.1):	2,450
Downloads (all versions):	12,498
Price:	donation

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Product Description:

Utility for renaming batches of files easily. Select a folder, filter it's contents, recurse it's folder structure, choose your naming scheme and click the "Rename Files" button. Dozens, or hundreds or thousands of files are quickly renamed to meet your criteria. It's a problem that has been addressed by other applications, but none work quite like FileWrangler.
Pure Cocoa, written in Objective-C, and fast.

GUI that shows you all of your naming choices at once.
File list instantaneously previews the results of your naming choices.
User-controlled folder recursion depth.
Natural language date entries.
Drag and drop.
Lots of conveniences for filtering a folder's contents.
Violation highlighting! See file names that are over 31 characters long, or contain UNIX-unfriendly characters.
Auto-include "enclosing folder" as part of your file name.
Renamed the wrong files? "Revert to original names" will save the day!
Robust PDF manual, with screenshots and suggestions on use.

What's new in this version:

Tested on OS X 10.4 with folders containing over 30,000 files.
Working great and feels snappier than on 10.3!
New Features

Export your file list, with optional tags, to a text file.
Tool Tips!
New tool for working with improperly recognized extensions.
Clear File Listing allows you to force FileWrangler to forget about the folder you chose.
Clear Everything clears all interface choices and forgets the folder you chose.
Reload Current Folder tells FileWrangler to refresh the current file list.
Can now add an alternate delimiter between month/day/year in the Date Formatting tools.
Reveal Chosen Folder in Finder let's you jump right to your folder and view it's contents.
Filenames can now be trimmed to exactly 31 characters, with trimming occuring at beginning, middle or end of the filename.
Step number added to number formatting, to allow for incremental jumps in a numerical sequence.
Invisible extensions now show as italicized in the Current Extension column.
Colons are automatically replaced with a forward slash by OS X. FileWrangler now alerts you if this has happened.
Violation highlighting now highlights all violations in all columns.
Code improvement to the renaming process results in faster renaming, especially for long file lists.
15% smaller download!

Bugs Fixed

Clear All Settings wasn't properly clearing all interface settings.
Prefix/Suffix delimiter didn't behave as expected, putting in extra delimiters when not necessary.
File names with a '/' were being interpreted as a ':' by the file system.
Sometimes files with a missing extension would not inherit a newly appened extension.
If file extension visibility was the only option chosen, FileWrangler would not set the extension visibility properly.
Clicking on a file with no extension would display an erroneous period at the end of the full file path.
Filenames with 32 characters could mistakenly be read as 31 characters and vice versa.
Delimiter handling should act more as expected, between prefix, name and suffix.
Original Name column now shows the full, Finder-visible filename.
Memory leak patched.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

Tiger compatible. OS X 10.3 required. Not compatible with 10.2 (sorry).

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.1:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Excellent! - Version: 1.2.1, 5/28/2008 05:11PM PST

xqj37

Very nice utility. Seems quite powerful and flexible. Renamed over 700 files in about 30 seconds, so I'm happy with the speed.

Odd behavior - Version: 1.2.1, 4/30/2007 12:49PM PST

Tee

Downloaded from the new server location.
The app froze/beachballed when using the open menu dialog.

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Odd behavior

Download site down - Version: 1.2.1, 11/20/2006 03:40AM PST

MacVlad

Hello!

The download site (and the email adress of the developer) is not valid anymore.

Any suggestions of an alternative adress?

Thanks!

Regards,
Vlad