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October 14, 2022
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P: Add some check boxes to the rename command to account for items hidden

  • October 14, 2022
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*LR Classic - 11.5, up to date (build number cannot be copied/pasted from about screen).

*PC, Windows 11, also up to date.

I accidentally downloaded the photos from my Canon camera with the wrong sort setting resulting in the numbers being reversed (decreasing with increasing shooting date/time instead of increasing). I tried to fix this in LightRoom using the Rename Photo command - but this only made things worse (until I figured out the quirks below).

#1. First, I found out the hard way that I accidentally left a filter on (flagged and unflagged) so the images flagged as rejected were not renamed. My bad ... But what is worse, photos in a STACK (below the top image) also were not renamed!! This does not make any sense to me...

--> Feature request #1: Add some check boxes to the rename command for the different types of images that may be excluded to (a) make the user aware of the exclusions, and (b) provide an easy way to include those images. (Note: in this case I was working with images from multiple cameras, I only want to change the numbering for one of them, so a global "apply to all" would not have the desired effect).

#2. I name my files for this camera as shown in this example: R6_2022_09_03_1830.CR3. The rename function does not allow me to preserve the "R6_2022_09_03" part. Thus, I had to separately rename images for each date.

--> Feature request #2: a rename option where I can specify only a portion of the existing file name to be preserved.

*Why is this valuable to me?

You can already tell from above, but this is requested by the guidelines.

1. My initial attempts only made the image numbering more disjointed.

2. I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to get the desired result because of the non-obviousness of how LRC works - specifically, hiding images in stacks from the renaming. This was not mentioned in the help documents I could find.

3. This was very frustrating.

4. Once I learned how things work, I still had to waste time by having to rename images separately for each date.

Thank you for your consideration.

Adriaan