Is it *still* not possible to batch rename files in LRC using string substitution/"find-and-replace" like you can easily do in Bridge? Incredible if true.

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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).

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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