Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bridge does it. http://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-podcast-designers/batch-rename-files-with-custom-strings-in-bridge-cs5-/ On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA