Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Gosh, Larry. I know how to do this but I found Julianne Kost's video nicely
done and informative about file renaming overall.
Her videos do tend to be nicely done and informative, if you have the
time to watch the whole thing in the hopes that it actually answers your
question. Videos can be great for people who know nothing about a
subject and need to learn everything, but when you already know most of
the material and are just trying to answer one question to get things
done, they are an annoying time suck.
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.
Thanks. This makes a lot of sense. This is exactly the answer I was
looking for.
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 ?
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