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October 26, 2024
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P: Renaming Search and Replace

  • October 26, 2024
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I'm sure most photographers who shoot thousands of images rename their files.  I typically have more than one camera and multiple lenses for each of my project, and before I start shooting, I synchronize all my cameras to the same local time.  When I bring up the raw images in LR, I sort them in the order they were shot, and I rename the images using the following convention:

 

YY-MMDD Event-#### (Camera, Lens) <other qualifiers>

 

For example:

23-0913 Istanbul-0563 (LEICA SL2,APO-SUMMICRON-SL 1-2-90 ASPH.)

23-0913 Istanbul-0564 (Fujifilm GFX100 II, GF35-70mmF4.5-5.6 WR)

 

There are very good reasons for me to be able to rename these files further with a "Search" and "Replace".  The camera and lens names (obtained from the EXIF data) are typically unweildy and create long file names.  I would like to be able to do a search and replace text strings, so I can streamline the names, e.g., into something like:

23-0913 Istanbul-0563 (SL2, SL90APO)

23-0913 Istanbul-0564 (GFX100 II, GF35-70)

 

At other times, I may have misspelled a name, e.g., "Taznaina" instead of "Tanzania".  I would like to search and replace the word for all my files.  It would not be practical to simply rename them all, since I might have culled and deleted some images, output and shared some others, etc., so to rename all files would also renumber many files, and that would cause a lot of confusion.

 

So I hope LR will provide the ability to batch rename images.  This is a feature Capture One provides, and I have found it extremely valuable.

 

Also, while at it, I highly recommend providing a "Rename" by right-clicking any image, either in Develop or Library mode.  Such a renaming feature would be extremely handy.

 

Hope others find these inputs useful.