I was playing around with Automator in Lion and had fun whipping up a few interesting services (miscellaneous scripts that can be run from the application menu). Inevitably, my first guess at what a service should be named is incorrect, so I’ve had to go though the process of renaming a few times. It isn’t hard, but it does require making some non-obvious tweaks. Here’s my process:
- Find the service under your home folder, ~/Library/Services.
- Right click on the service you want to modify, and choose Show Package Contents.
- In the window that opens, look into the “Contents” folder.
- You should see an info.plist file, which you can open in the text editor of your choice
- Change the existing string (in the NSMenuItem -> “default” section) to whatever you like.
- Save and close the file, and the new Service menu option should now be visible with the updated name.
Hope that helps!
