Yeah, it actually is. I used to think that A Better Finder Rename was probably overkill. I mean all it does is rename files & folders right? How much value can that possibly add. That & it has a goofy name. Though I guess the goofy name worked, since I remembered it when I needed that functionality.
That was before I finally got fed up with the 86 folders in my Photos directory that were from an older camera. At some point Canon changed there software from naming folders YYYYMMDD by default to YYYY_MM_DD by default. I think it was when I started using a DSLR. So, my folders were all very annoying to sort. I couldn’t even sort by last modified date, because on a Mac, if you edit a file in or add a file to a folder, the modification date is updated. So, I figured I’d give it a try. To be honest I could probably do it via the command prompt, but that would take too much effort & I’m feeling lazy. 
It works great. The demo will only do 11 at a time (it actually says the first 10, but it did 11 every time), but that’s better than one at a time. 
I’m trying to decide if I would have enough use for it to buy it, or if it’s just this one time that I need it. But either way, it is a pretty handy tool.
They have another toy that I know I could have used in the past called The Big Mean Folder Machine. Basically it will merge folders or divide files into separate folders. I had never even heard of this utility before. This would have saved me tons of time when I’ve tried to get files divvied up to archive to DVD or CD.
In both cases the things these tools do aren’t hard to do on your own, they are just time consuming. The last utility they have that sounds interesting is A Better Finder Attribute. I haven’t tried it yet, but it sounds like it lets you see & tweak attributes that the Finder won’t let you get to. The feature that looks most handy is to copy the EXIF date that a pic was taken to the Create date of the file. That might be worth the $15 right there.
I just wish it would just display the complete EXIF data (the Finder doesn’t). The last App I found that did that was EXIF-O-Matic, which was last updated to v1.2 in January of 2009, but still requires Rosetta (the version I have is actually from May 2003). It was a handy little lightweight Java app.
Oh, did I mention that all three of these apps have cool icons? 
Or something.
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