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?
