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")