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July 11, 2021
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renaming problem in buggy Bridge 11.1

  • July 11, 2021
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So I am going through my day folders from an extensive trip and replacing the camera numbers with mine, according to my system.  they are sequential so I have 2 lines in the renaming box.  The last number in my database was 3028092, so the sequence should start with 3028093.  The first is text, 30,  and the second is sequential number 28093. When one day folder has the renaming applied to the contents, going to the next folder, the number starts at the number of the last one. 

 

It went OK for a couple of folders then stuck and after a while, I had to close Bridge and reopen.  The last folder was numbered correctly and I proceeded till it stuck again on another folder, and after waiting some time, again closed and reopened.

So it was working OK for more folders.  I select all the items in a folder, sorted by the original camera name and apply the rename and the order should be the same, but with new numbers.

But then a new problem developed where I would select all the items, renumber and after finishing, I would find maybe 10 at the top that didn't get renumbered.  I applied the renumbering to just those, and continued but it happened on more folders.  I assumed they were at they end and then I saw that some of the renumbered had big numerical gaps, and out of normal sequence, as in the picture.  Sometimes it was just one at the top, first, (which is out of order).  I sorted by date, in 2 cases, and it was right between 2 similar shots, with a sequential number skipped, so I changed it to that, as that is where it belonged. EG, if they ended in 100 and 102, then it would be 101.  But then I had about 10 in a folder at the top with camera names and I sorted by date to see where they belonged, and they weren't necessarily in the right place, judging by the adjacent.  And then I remembered that another Bridge bug is giving movies the wrong date and/or time.  So if there was a gap, the movie could be elsewhere, and some looked like adjacent shots but there was no numerical gap.  So this makes it extremely difficult to assign the desired numbers that keep ones with their desired sequence, and when the metadata is extracted for a database, it won't readily be apparent where they belong, with wrong numbers and wrong dates.  

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July 13, 2021

Yes, I have had this problem too.  I think you'll find it is because Bridge is trying to process the thumbs and previews and this is messing up both the order and the images selected.  All of these issues seem to me to go back to the changes made to the way Brige caches previews fron CC2019 on.  If your Bridge crashes before the renaming is finished, it still records the numbers as used and will rename starting at the number it thinks is next leaving you with gaps in the sequencing too.  My Bridge installation doesn't crash when batch renaming.  It hangs instead and I have to end the task in the Windows Task Manager.  I number mine in chronological order, but Bridge only seems to use whole seconds in the Date/Time Taken, and so if you are shooting at a high burst rate the images are unfortunately out of sequence.  That causes images to appear out of order in other windows apps which display in file name order.  Adobe needs some expert Business Analysts who can look at workflows and fix these user-unfriendly issues.