Help renaming a file

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#1

I am struggled all day with examples in this forum, but can’t get the name of this .zip file to rename. I am trying to rename a file that looks like 459860.zip to proofs.zip. I am sure this is easy for everyone, but I can’t get it just right.

this is what I have right now.

property theChosenfolder : “Macintosh HD:users:Rupert:desktop:baird:customers:tracy:”

On renamefile(theFile)
tell application “Finder”
set the_file to (theChosenFolder as string) & “:Proofs.zip” as alias
set name of theFile to the_file
end tell
end renamefile

PLEASE HELP!

#2

A couple of things:

  1. the “U” in “Users” needs to be capitailzed
  2. you have an extra colon (after “tracy” and before “Proofs”)
  3. “name” is just the name, not the path

So:

set the_file to choose file
set the name of the file to “Proofs.zip”

or
set theFile to “Macintosh HD:users:Rupert:desktop:baird:customers:tracy:459860.zip” as alias
set the name of the file to “Proofs.zip”

HTH