Cannot Batch rename without losing link to masked .acr files in Bridge 2022

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November 4, 2021
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Hey Folks,

My normal photography workflow consists of timesyncing in Bridge, and doing the bulk ofmy photographic toning/contrast etc in Adobe Camera. When I'm done I batch rename everything so it stays time synced. When I rename the .CR2 file the match .XMP file also gets renamed so they stay linked and my edits remain on the renamed file.

Now with the new masking option in Bridge 2022, the program is creating an additional .ACR file in addition to the .XMP file but the issue is when I rename my file only the .XMP file gets renamed, not the .ACR file, so I lose all of the masked edits I've done.

Any way to automatically rename the .ACR files so that they stay linked to the original .CR2 + .XML files?

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Lumigraphics

Legend

Please report this in the ACR forum.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi Kendra,

One minor correction, the new masking is in ACR, Bridge is only giving you access to the new ACR. If you go into Bridge's Preferences, you can either double-click to open ACR via PS or double-click to open ACR via Bridge. Either way, it's the same plugin doing the work, not Bridge.

And to answer you question: unfortunately no. Probably the easiest way to work around this issue is to avoid it all together: convert your raw image into the DNG format. The DNG is a container format (similar to TIF and JPG) and both the XMP and the ACR files are contained within the DNG so they do not need to be renamed and cannot be lost or misplaed. FWIW, I've been doing this conversion from my beginning raw days, about a dozen years or so ago, and never looked back.

HTH

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