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eimear_sbp
Participant
March 25, 2026
Question

Lightroom export sequence format

  • March 25, 2026
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The latest Lightroom update has changed how the custom file names can be exported as a sequence, and I can’t find any way around it. It used to automatically change the number format based on how many photos you were exporting (eg less than 10 would be formatted -0, 10-99 photos would be -00, 100-999 would be -000 and so on), but now it just stays with the fewest number of characters. This means I can be exporting over 100 photos with a custom name, and when viewed in name order they won’t go from filename-1, filename-2, filename-3 etc, they’ll go filename-1, filename-10, filename-100, filename-2, filename-20, filename-200 etc etc. The old format would have kept them sequential, with it automatically setting the format so the exported photos would be set as filename-001, filename-002 and so on. It’s particularly disruptive when you’re exporting photos taken throughout an event, and two photos taken seconds apart and should be viewed as a sequence are all split up. Is there any way to set the format the numbering follows in a sequence, and if not could someone at Adobe make that a thing please?

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    Devon Cricket
    Participant
    April 13, 2026

    Having the same issue, which is adding more admin work after exporting by having to manually change the name of exported files so they display sequentially. Is there any way this can be reverted to how the export originally worked?