Rename

Rename files and folders in a batch, directly from Raycast.

Commands

Command	Acts on
Rename File(s) — rename the selected files in a batch.	Files
Replace in File Names — replace characters in the names of the selected files.	Files
Rename Folder(s) — rename the selected folders in a batch.	Folders
Replace in Folder Names — replace characters in the names of the selected folders.	Folders
Advanced Batch Rename — rename using a rule-based engine that chains find & replace, case transforms, prefixes, suffixes, and numbering.	Your choice — see below
Rename History — view recent rename operations and undo them.	—

One command, one target type

Each rename command targets exactly one kind of Finder item, so a batch never touches something you did not mean to rename.

• Rename File(s) and Replace in File Names (previously Replace File(s) Characters) act on files only. In a mixed selection they rename just the files and leave every folder alone; a selection holding no files says so rather than renaming anything.
• Rename Folder(s) and Replace in Folder Names act on folders only, symmetrically — mixed selections rename just the folders, and every message names folders rather than files.
• macOS packages (app bundles, .pages/.key documents, and similar) are directories on disk, so they count as folders here even though Finder shows them as files.

Changed behaviour: the file commands used to rename whatever was selected, folders included. They no longer do. To rename folders, use Rename Folder(s) or Replace in Folder Names; to rename files and folders together in one pass, use Advanced Batch Rename with Apply to set to Files & Folders.

Advanced Batch Rename scope

Advanced Batch Rename carries an Apply to dropdown in its search bar with three values:

• Files (default) — only the files in the selection.
• Folders — only the folders.
• Files & Folders — everything selected.

The preview list is the working set: it shows exactly what will be renamed, and updates as you change the scope. Toasts and the history entry follow the scope too — N files, N folders, or N items. If the current scope matches nothing in the selection, the rename is blocked with a message instead of quietly doing nothing.

Rename History

Every command records successful renames to a local history (the 25 most recent operations) and opens Rename History after a successful batch, so you can review — or undo — what just happened. Open it any time to:

• Browse recent rename operations with their timestamps.
• Inspect the full old → new name mapping of an operation, grouped by status (renamed, undone, could not undo).
• Undo an operation — or roll back several at once by picking the state to return to. Undoing a batch restores the original filenames.
• Undo a single file from an operation's detail view, leaving the rest of the batch renamed.

Undo is careful about files that changed since the rename: a file that has been moved or deleted, replaced by a different file, or whose original name is taken again, is skipped rather than failing the whole batch — it is marked with the reason and can be retried once the conflict is resolved. Undo verifies the file's identity (not just its path), so it never moves a file the rename didn't produce.

History is stored locally in Raycast and never leaves your machine.