Alphabetical order

[Luiz Muzzi]

Hi, everybody
I have a folder with about 500 files named like this:
Name-{year4}_{month0}_{day0}-{seqn} where the sequence goes from 001 to 500.
Now, I have a client who wants to receive the files in alphabetical order. I would like to rename the files in such a way that 001 corresponds to aaa, 002 corresponds to aba, etc (in a strict alphabetical order).
Is there a way I can do it in PM, i.e., rename the files using an alphabetical order?
TIA

-Luiz Muzzi

[Sven]

Hi!
If it is not possible with PM you can go for this piece of MAC-Software: http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/index.html
It supports Numerical and Alphabetical Sequences...

A Windows version is also available. (http://www.publicspace.net/windows/BetterFileRename/index.html)

HTH
Sven

[Kirk Baker]

Luiz,

Hi, everybody
I have a folder with about 500 files named like this:
Name-{year4}_{month0}_{day0}-{seqn} where the sequence goes from 001 to 500.
Now, I have a client who wants to receive the files in alphabetical order. I would like to rename the files in such a way that 001 corresponds to aaa, 002 corresponds to aba, etc (in a strict alphabetical order).
Is there a way I can do it in PM, i.e., rename the files using an alphabetical order?

Yes, but it wouldn't be easy/simple.  You could use Code Replacement where you pre-generate your mapping from 001 -> aaa like so:

001[tab]aaa
002[tab]aba
...
500[tab]zzz

Sven's suggestion may be better/easier.

-Kirk

[Luiz Muzzi]

Thanks for the tip, Sven. I'll give it a try.
Thanks Kirk for the quick reply.
Regards,

-Luiz Muzzi