So I have an upcoming video on store photos in the Finder as files rather than in the Photos app. That is useful, especially if you use your Mac for work and want to separate work projects from your personal photos. Here is a preview of the video: <a href="https://archive.org/download/storingphotosinfinderfoldersasanalternativetothephotosappmacmost2069/2069FinderPhotos.mp4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://archive.org/download/storingphotosinfinderfoldersasanalternativetothephotosappmacmost2069/2069FinderPhotos.mp4</a> While making this video, I thought it would be useful to be able to rename photos, but keep the original name in parenthesis. So "IMG0096.jpg" would become "Photo Title (IMG0096).jpg". Sure you can do it manually. But if this could be something that you need to do often if you take photos for work. Heck, I have a huge clipart photo collection I purchased with names that are just numbers and I'd love to rename a file from time-to-time but don't want to lose the original filename. So here is an automator script that does this. It prompts you for a new name and then puts that name, plus the original name in parenthesis. I thought it would be easier to make. But it is tricky because you have to take apart the original file path and just get the name. And you have to juggle that and the new name. I'll zip up and attach the Automator workflow to this post.
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