Question

I know this question is a little bit crazy, but I do want to know the solution. Is there any way to run an apple script to set any given file or folder in rename mode so that the user can type in the new name? I know I can do the rename easily in script but I am just wondering whether it is doable or not.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Well, you can sort of hack it together with System Events

tell application "Finder"
    activate
    select file "test.png" of desktop
    tell application "System Events" to keystroke return
end tell

It’s kind of a hack, though, but I don’t know if there’s another way to do it