Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is a good thought Peter which I will look into. Thank you for the suggestion. Gerry Sent from my iPad > On 6 May 2015, at 18:57, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote: > > Gerry, > > do you have a package that will allow you to do a bulk rename? It would be > a bit > tedious, but you ought then to be able to rename all the .xmp files > according to > your new convention. > > Peter > >> On 06/05/2015 14:55, Gerry Walden wrote: >> I am having problems with Lightroom and I am not sure of a way out of it. >> I will try and explain. >> >> My numbering system for images was to start with a year number followed >> by W for Walden, and this was done in-camera so I would end up with a >> number such as 14W3257, but I decided this would date an image too >> clearly to viewers so I decided to replace the initial number with >> letters based on the alphabet, and I have done this through Lightroom. >> This means the example above would become ADW-3257 instead. What has >> happened is that whilst the image file has been renumbered the associated >> .xmp file has not been resulting in the loss of all captioning for the >> renumbered files. The disassociated .xmp files are appearing in LR in >> what I can best describe as blank slides (i.e. no image) and showing the >> original file number. These are marked ?!? as missing. >> >> It is relatively easy to re-associate them on a one-to-one basis but this >> is very tedious, and despite putting questions on the Adobe forums and >> Luminous Landscape nobody has so far come up with an answer. >> >> I am posting this here partly to warn others that this could happen, and >> secondly to see if anybody can suggest a viable solution. I am now >> converting images I know to be OK to .dng files in the hope that it will >> not happen again. >> >> Gerry. >> >> Gerry Walden >> www.gwpics.com >> Fujifilm X-World Photographer >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >> >> >> >> >> Gerry Walden >> 023 8046 3076 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > -- > > =========================================================== > Dr Peter Dzwig > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information