How to: Rename folders in Google Reader
Yesterday evening I devoted some time to organizing my feeds in Google Reader. I wanted to add new subscriptions, remove some others and rename folders for a better workflow. And then I realized that Google Reader doesn’t have an easy way to rename folders: no “Rename” button, no option in Reader’s settings, nothing. I was about to start creating new folders and moving all my feeds to them, when I came up with this little trick to rename folders in Google Reader without having to turn all your feeds upside down.
1. Enter Google Reader’s Settings and click on the Subscriptions tab.
2. Enter the folder name you want to edit in the filter text field on the right side.
3. You’ll see a list with all the feeds saved in that folder. Now click on the “Select all” option on top of the list, and right after that create a new folder with the new name on any of those feeds, by clicking on the “Change folders” button and selecting “New folder”.
4. Go to the “More actions” menu and select the new folder you just created under “Add tag”. The tag will be applied to all the selected feeds.
5. Now, in that same menu, select the old folder name under “Remove tag” and voilà! All the selected feeds will be saved now under the new name.
6. The only thing left is going to the Tags tab and deleting the old folder.
Posted at 9:43 am on Jun 13th
Very helpful! Thanks!
Posted at 1:45 am on Jul 22nd
Thanks for this excellent guidance. But why won’t Google Reader provide a simple way to rename a folder?
Posted at 6:01 pm on Aug 9th
Good Job! I’m looking for it. Thanks.
Posted at 11:48 pm on Aug 9th
excellent!
Posted at 4:22 am on Sep 17th
Thanks baby. It really works!
Posted at 6:52 pm on Dec 14th
Thank you! Incredibly helpful!
Posted at 5:51 pm on Dec 31st
Hey, it works! I did a google search on how to rename reader folder and ended up here. I followed the steps carefully, one by one. Thanks!
Posted at 8:38 am on Jan 9th
Thanks! Just what I needed.
Posted at 12:35 pm on Jan 20th
Thanks a lot, this had been annoying me for weeks!
Posted at 3:15 pm on Jan 22nd
Thanks from Italy!
Posted at 11:43 am on Jan 28th
Thanks from Japan!
Posted at 1:29 am on Feb 1st
Great tip. Thanks!
Posted at 3:34 am on Feb 28th
nice tip
thanks.
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Posted at 7:38 pm on May 24th
Very helpful! Thank you!
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Posted at 5:20 pm on Jul 16th
i do the same think too, but its better for google to just come up with a simple rename button. I hope google is listening.
Posted at 3:51 am on Jul 21st
Thanks for the tip! It was really helpful! :)))
Posted at 11:06 pm on Jul 21st
Thanks for this! With as ’smart’ as Google software usually is, this particular situation with not being able to simple rename a folder SHOCKS me. And they still haven’t fixed it! I can’t believe it……
Posted at 2:47 pm on Aug 4th
Thanks so much - I was looking everywhere for a rename button.
Posted at 10:13 am on Aug 7th
nice!!!
Posted at 10:02 am on Aug 10th
Thanks for this tutorial. But really silly that Google does not offer a simple way to rename folders.
Posted at 12:58 pm on Aug 27th
I’ve thought of the same..
but before doing that, I decided to google, to find the answer, and I found myself here
Posted at 3:22 am on Sep 21st
Thanks for this
Posted at 6:11 pm on Sep 21st
awesome, thanks so much
Posted at 7:26 pm on Oct 7th
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Posted at 2:47 am on Oct 24th
This is really quite ridiculous. I think what Google is trying to do here is to wean the user off the “folder” concept. They want everything to be a label or a tag instead. This was first introduced in Gmail, and the concept is being pushed into other web apps. So if you don’t like how something is tagged, you remove that tag and add a different one. That said, I still don’t see why you couldn’t rename tag (or, in the Googlified way of thinking about things, do a global replace of one tag by another).
Posted at 8:33 am on Nov 6th
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