P: Support search and replace in file renaming presets

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​@slow_shutter There is no such plugin with that name on Jeffrey Friedl’s site

I agree. I’m pretty familiar with Friedl’s plugins, but I didn’t read the previous reply carefully.  Beardsworth’s plugin is the only one I can confirm.

I’m not about to give John Beardsworth $30 to get LrC to do something it should already be able to do.

It is a little pricey compared to other plugins. But how much do you value your time using the Bridge method?

In my opinion, I don’t think Adobe will implement this, based on the small number of votes the feature request has received over many years. But sometimes they surprise me...

Moderators, ​@Rikk Flohr_Photography, please merge with this feature request:

It is indeed a very old feature request. The two plugins mentioned by ​@miladavis are your best bet, while waiting for Adobe to implement this (perhaps until the next ice age).

Moderators, ​@Rikk Flohr_Photography, please merge this other locked thread here:

Moderators, ​@Rikk Flohr_Photography, please merge this other locked thread here:

There is a much easier way to handle this without losing your metadata or going through the hassle of re-importing. You can perform a true find-and-replace batch rename directly inside Lightroom Classic by using the "Search Replace Transfer" plugin by John Beardsworth or Jeffrey Friedl’s "Bulk Photo Rename" plugin. These tools let you swap out specific text strings across thousands of images at once, updating both your catalog and the actual files on your hard drive instantly.

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This is a most basic feature that should be an option. I shouldn’t have to rename 800 files one by one if they have a typo. It’s ridiculous. Can’t accomplish it in Bridge because going back to LR breaks the links to the files. 

Please implement "String Substitution" to the rename options in Lightroom, like we have in Bridge.

Adding text or numbers is easy in the LR rename function. Erasing text or numbers from the file name is a nightmare.

Yes you can always go to Adobe Bridge to do that but once you change the name you will lose Virtual copies, the history of the file retouching, flags, etc.

But it is a very powerful rename function that would solve a lot of problems of the limited rename function that is used by LR.

And please stay away from REGEX. Geeks might love them. 99.99% of people hate them . Make it easy. We are in 2022 and not when the first Atari computers were invented. There are multiple ways to achieve the same as REGEX but in a visual understandable way for every one and not only Nobel prize winners

It is time to completely develop the rename function into a much flexible one. What happens for example if I want to remove a specific letter from a file name in the middle of it, or a number or exchange one number for another. The rename function now is very simple. Please improve it to something more flexible. There are many other rules that can be applied in case we need to batch specific changes quicky.

Thank you