Existing users, 
Just reading about OS X Tiger yesterday, specifically Automator. It'll do what ABFR will do according to what I saw on Apple's site. Will ABFR become obsolete? I'm a paying user of ABFR, but I have to admit that I prefer less apps on my machine and if Tiger's components can do the job...
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So, will Tiger's Automator kill ABFR?
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Contributed by: DylanMenges Wednesday, April 13 2005 @ 04:35 AM PDT
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So, will Tiger's Automator kill ABFR? - schneb`
No, it will do what simple freeware renamers will do. In fact, having tried it, it does not rename them in order of how they are listed, its almost random. I have yet to figure out by what sequence it numbers my images.Tuesday, June 14 2005 @ 08:24 AM PDT
So, will Tiger's Automator kill ABFR? - Peregrin Took
No, Automator will not kill the usefulness of file renaming utilities like ABFR. Automator is better suited to the sorts of tasks you would write an AppleScript or UNIX shell script for, tasks where you will be basically repeating the same steps each time. ABFR is targeted specifically at file renaming where each batch may be renamed in a different pattern. Yes, you might use Automator to do the same thing, but unless your filename patterns are the same each time, you'd probably have to do some rewriting of your Automator script for every change.Someone clever could potentially put together an Automator script that would do what ABFR will do, but it would take a lot of work. And probably wouldn't have the Contextual Menu ability that ABFR does.
So I don't think ABFR and similar utilities are obsolete just yet.
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