On Jan 30, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote: > Sooooo..... > > ....since Jon's Commands no longer work under Snow Leopard.... > > ....how does one rename a file? I've tried numerous variations on what WAS a simple activity but nothing seems to work. > > > Here's the latest of an hours worth of beating my head against the monitor....only to leave slobber all over it.... > > set fileNameNew to (fileNameNew & mySuffix) as string -- new name for file > > set filePath to (srcFolder & fileName) as string -- path to file to be renamed > > set file name of file filePath to fileNameNew > set afile to choose file tell application "Finder" set name of afile to "This is my new name" end tell -or- set afile to choose file set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":" set afolder to (text items 1 through -2 of ("" & afile)) as text set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid do shell script "mv " & quoted form of POSIX path of afile & " " & quoted form of (POSIX path of afolder & "/" & "This is my new name")