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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom Problems
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 20:46:45 +0100
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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
>> 
>> 
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