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Posted: **Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:15 pm**

Hi, I have an image control that I load from a file on disk. I would like to change the name of the image, and have it change the name of the file on disk. Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks,

--Doug

Posted: **Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:06 pm**

Hi Doug,

you can:

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set the name of img "Old name of your image" to "New name of your image"
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To rename an image inside of your stack.

Use the "rename" command to rename the image (or any file) on disk:

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rename file "/Users/klaus/Desktop/jigsawtest.jpg" to "/Users/klaus/Desktop/a completetely new name.jpg"
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Best

Klaus

Posted: **Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:28 pm**

Thanks Klaus,
Works great. My rename code now looks like:

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on mouseUp
   put the fileName of image "image" into tOldName
   set itemDelimiter to "."
   put tOldName into tNewName
   ask "New Name:"
   put it into item 1 of tNewName
   rename file tOldName to (defaultFolder & "\" & tNewName)
   send "openstack" to stack "ImageBrowser"  ##refresh list of file names
end mouseUp

Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else wants a snippet to do a similar thing.

Thanks again,

--Doug

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