In Bridge, the batch rename command allows string substitution.
Larry could search for "20160806-LRC0" and replace it with
"20160806-LRC1" and rename them all as a batch.
He might have to append a 4 digit sequence number or it might keep the
existing 4 digits remaining in the file name. I'm not sure about that &
I don't feel like going into the other room & fire up Bridge right now.
But, I know it does the same thing as her video showed where you can see
what the resulting file name is going to be & adjust before you click on
[Rename].
And you can save it as a template.
On 8/10/2016 9:31 AM, Doug Brewer wrote:
Sorry if the video doesn't meet your needs, Larry, but it does address
John's question, which is why I posted it.
Addressing your original question, I'm thinking Jostein is on the right
path. Select a test group, open the rename dialog, and then the edit
dialog to see if you can put together what you need.
On 8/10/16 3:59 AM, Larry Colen 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.
It wouldn't be so bad if they would simply post a copy of their script.
If they wanted to be really helpful, they'd post the script with
timestamps for the start of each section. As far as I can tell there is
almost nothing in that video that I didn't already know. Sure fifteen
minutes isn't a lot of time, at least in geological terms, but I don't
have hours to go wading through all of those videos every time I have a
question, trying to find one that actually answers it.
On 8/9/16 11:46 AM, John wrote:
Does Lightroom have a batch rename command like Adobe Bridge?
On 8/9/2016 3:16 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
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 ?
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