If you have renamed your Home folder without using one of those methods, then they will not help you now. It is critical to fully read, understand, and follow the documentation for ChangeShortName.The X Lab has not tested ChangeShortName: use at your own risk.The third-party utility ChangeShortName.The Apple®-recommended procedure for changing an account's short name is specified in the AppleCare® Knowledge Base document 'Mac OS X: How to Change User Short Name.'.There are two approaches to changing the short name of your account: If you change the file name of your Home folder while using your account, it will immediately appear as if all of your preferences, Mail, Address Book contacts, iCal calendars, iPhoto pictures, iTunes music, Dock customization, and other items have either vanished or been reset to default values. The files I would like to rename are in following folder:Ĭould you please help me and write which commands exactly and in which sequence I should put in the Terminal in order to rename all MOV files in the folder: Users/edyta/Movies/TestExiftool into the format: YYYYMMDD_hhmm_ is a grave mistake to rename your Home folder - changing its file name from johnsmith to John, for example - in an attempt to change the short name for your account when using Mac® OS X. In Terminal when putting command 'pwd' I get following path indicated: I have installed ExifTool and have been able to run it in Terminal. I would like to rename all files in an indicated folder (Users/edyta/Movies/TestExiftool). Hhmm = time of file creation from the Meta Data of the file

YYYYMMDD = original Creattion Date from the Meta Data of the file I would like to remane the MOV files so that they get the following format: Original iPhone files are named IMG_xxxx.mov, on computer they get the name WD_yyyy.mov (this is due to the fact that we upload the files with WD Photo application.

I have following problem: the MOV (Apple) files get another creation / modification date after transfer from iPhone to computer (MacBookAit OS 10.9.5). First of all please consider that I am not a developer and have no idea about programming.

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