You've gotten a few good answers, here's one more that may require less editing of your scripts that depend on Jons Commands: set fileNameNew to (fileNameNew & mySuffix) as string -- new name for file set filePath to (srcFolder & fileName) as string -- path to file to be renamed tell application "Finder" to set name of file filePath to fileNameNew HTH ES On Jan 30, 2010, at 9:19am, Chuck Pelto wrote: > 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