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paulaa73368584
Participant
April 4, 2025

I used "." in the naming of my files which corrupted the files and now I can't rename them

  • April 4, 2025
  • 3 replies
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I used a period "." in the naming of my file sequence on Bridge (.psd). Now those files appear as blank, unreadable documents and I can't recover them. When I try to rename them using Batch Rename, Bridge is not able to change the name. I think it thinks that the "." indicates the format of the file. HELP!!!!!!

3 replies

Community Manager
June 5, 2025

Hi @paulaa73368584 ,

 

Thank you for your feedback.

 

Could you please try to rename those files using Batch rename - New Extension option and enter the original extension?

Please try and let us know if it resolves the issue or not.

 

Thanks,

Bridge Team

 

 

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 9, 2025

@paulaa73368584 

 

How did you go?

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 7, 2025

@paulaa73368584 

 

Please provide a screenshot of the incorrect filenames.

 

Another option is ExifTool:

 

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/09/exiftool-automatically-adding-missing.html?m=1