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Removing characters from filenames

You can use Renamer to remove text from a range of character positions in filenames. For example, you can remove text between the 2nd and 5th characters.

To remove characters from filenames:

Step 1

Drag the files you want to rename from the Finder to the file table.

Step 2

Click add-renamer.png and choose Characters.

Step 3

Click Remove.

Step 4

Enter the character position at which to start removing characters in the “From position” box.

Step 5

Enter the character position at which to stop removing in the “To position” box.

Step 6

Click Apply.

By default the character position is counted from the left of the filename, with 0 meaning the first character, 1 the second, and so on. For example, to remove the 2nd up to and including the 5th character, you would enter 1 as the “From position” and 4 as the “To position”.

You can change the character position to be counted from the right of the filename by clicking fromright.png. In this case a character position of 0 means the last character, 1 the second-to-last, and so on. This is useful if each filename has a different length and you want to, say, remove the two characters before the last, in which case you would set 2 as the “From position” and 1 as the “To position”.

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editing characters