Gosh, Larry. I know how to do this but I found Julianne Kost's video nicely done and informative about file renaming overall.
To modify a set of file names using Lightroom that run from 20160806-LRC00001 through 20160806-LRC00066 to 20160806-LRC10001 through 20160806-LRC10066: 1- Sort the files in filename order 2- Select the range from the first to the 66th file 3- Create a customized file name template that translates the names to 20160806-LRC1(SEQUENCE 0001) 4- Apply the template It takes two seconds to do it. G > On Aug 9, 2016, at 12:16 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Doug Brewer wrote: >> http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2015/02/how-and-when-to-rename-files-in-lightroom-2.html > > I didn't waste the whole thirteen minutes watching that video, but I did > waste several minutes trying to scan through it and find something about > changing the middle of the file name. > > I could easily rename the files in the command line with something like the > below (the syntax is wrong, but the intent should be clear) using regular > expressions > > for name in (20160806-LRC)000(*) > mv $name (\1)100(\2) > end > > unfortunately, this would do nothing but just confuse lightroom and I'd have > to go through one by one, for 66 files. > > As to the video, I absolutely hate the fact that Adobe has converted all of > their documentation to those nearly useless time wasting annoyances that make > you spend several minutes trying to find a simple piece of information that > you should be able to find by scanning a simple page of text for five seconds. >> >> Lightroom is good at prepending a prefix, or appending a suffix to file >> names. Is there an easy way to change the prefix of a group of files, >> specifically 20160806-LRC00001 through 20160806-LRC00066 to >> 20160806-LRC10001 through 20160806-LRC10066 ? > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
