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Five0Guy
Inspiring
August 10, 2012
Question

Bridge CS6 - How to rename 50,000 RAW Files?

  • August 10, 2012
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Hi Folks,

Let me just say this, so I can get it off my chest ... Adobe why on earth did you make these forums the most maddeningly formatted I have ever used. Not intuitive at all and needlessly complicated and precious. I thought you guys were good at this stuff?

Whew ...

I have about 50,000 raw files all rated, labeled and keyworded. They are in about 450 folders but the numbering of the files is just whatever my particular Canon camera of the day had at the time. I'd like to change the filenames to my initial and last name, date (YR,MONTH,DAY), a number from 0001-9999 (for that particular date) and a two letter suffix.

For instance:

fguy_120109_0001_SF.CR2

The question is, is there some way to automate this without having to go to each folder separately, select all the files and rename? Can this be automated? Otherwise thats 450 folders to deal with.

Suggestions please.

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Muppet Mark
Inspiring
August 10, 2012

Batch Rename under menubar/tools can do all of the above… Very easy to use ( has regexp too ) Script could do all your folders in 1 go… Depending on your platform you could also do this outside of Bridge…

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Five0GuyAuthor
Inspiring
August 10, 2012

Mark,

Whats my best resource for learning how to make a script? I have no prior experience for making scripts for Bridge.

Thanks

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Muppet Mark
Inspiring
August 10, 2012

Learning to script is not something thats done overnight… Well for me it was/isn't… If you require lots of scripted solutions its worth while it can save you lots of time but theres a learning curve… If this is your only need then someone may help but you would need to supply more details… I don't have CS6 but that may or may not be a problem… What OS are you using and where are the folders all in the same directory?

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