You can buy search-and-replace plug-ins for LR. But even better, you can rename within LR. For the new name use [LRC0]+[OriginalFilenumber] or[ DDMMYYYY]+[LRC0]+[OriginalFilenumber]
Which doesn't solve your original gripe/puzzlement, but simple renaming would let you move on and obsess about something else (;-> stan On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:23:12PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: > >>> I normally add a digit to the file index using the fourth character of >>> the >>> name, so 7043 becomes LRC37043.PEF, but if I shoot in DNG I lose the >>> fourth character, it becomes _LRC7043.DNG. >> >> It's your own fault for having three initials! > > Actually, it's my parents' fault. I could go with just two, but I don't > want people to get in the habit of calling me Elsie. I am many things, > but a cow isn't one of them. > >> >> Are you sure this is the K5 you're talking about? That's how my K10D >> behaves, >> but on the K5 I don't get that leading underscore on the name. > > Yup, can't change the filename on the K-x and the K-5 was my only other > camera last summer. It's possible that it was triggered by sRGB rather > than DNG, but I thought either one did it. > > >> >> I set the prefix on my K5 to "K5_0" (at least for the first 10000 >> exposures), >> and when I look in a random image directory I see K5_01396.JPG & >> K5_01396.DNG > > I'll have to double check on that. In any case, my theory is that I'll > shoot in PEF and keep those files as backups someplace. Eventually, I'll > use lightroom to convert them to DNGs for portability. > > One of my first big purchases when I start getting paychecks will probably > be a drobo of some kind, and I may just do the conversion by having > lightroom write my "everything catalog" to the new disk farm as DNGs. > > -- > l...@red4est.com via squirrelmail > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
