A YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss rename

[jimhere]

Since iView/Media Pro is about to hit the 32bit wall, I'm trying to figure new ways to manage the assets (DAM).

One item is file renaming. Today I'm trying Bridge, which I've had for decades (or so) but never used.

I managed to get it to rename like this:

2019-06-07-110713.jpg

but I want it like this:

2019-06-07-11-07-13.jpg

So Bridge almost does it, but that last block has hoursminuitesseconds as one block

Searching these here forums implies there's a way to do this with "regular expresseions" but I have not seen an example with plain hyphen separators (no spaces, no slashes, no colons)

Do any of you know how to do a YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss rename?

[SuperMerlin · Accepted solution]

The find string is:-

(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(.*)

The replace is:-

$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6

[jimhere]

Thanks so much for that. Genius!

[jimhere]

In the case of Burst photos, would Bridge be smart enough to also replace the <space>(1)'s, like these:

2016-03-08-08-01-58 (1).jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58 (2).jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58 (3).jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58 (4).jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58 (5).jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58 (6).jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58 (7).jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58-1.jpg

with sequential dashes, like these?

2016-03-08-08-01-58-2.jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58-3.jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58-4.jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58-5.jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58-6.jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58-7.jpg

2016-03-08-08-01-58-1.jpg

[SuperMerlin]

You could batch rename these with:-

Find is :-

(.{19})(..)(\d+)(.+)

Replace with :-

$1-$3

[jimhere]

That's perfect.

Also, the fact that you seem to thin in parentheses and brackets and dots is impressive.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Also, the fact that you seem to thin in parentheses and brackets and dots is impressive.

SuperMerlin's real name is actually Neo. The world looks like this to the One:

So, compared to that, regular expressions are nothing!