Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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