I've upgraded to 10.4 and the issue is still not resolved. Anyone from Adobe want to chime in here? This is a major workflow feature that I rely upon heavily.

JonRoweMag81

Participant

In Lightroom Classic version 10.4, it doesn't happen all the time but randomly I'll find myself not able to rename an entire group of pictures within a folder. To help show, I made a video.

I just got a new macbook pro, but I was having issues with my previous one as well.

On my last macbook pro, I even went as far as to export the folder as a catalog...open a new catalog and import it...rename, and go back to original catalog and delete old / import new one with the renamed files. I've also gone to Bridge and renamed them and then re-synched...which I lose all my editing that way, but it works.

This is super annoying, any help would be greatly appreciated!

GoldingD

Legend

Is this similar to:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-batch-renaming-has-stopped-working-in-lc-10-3/idc-p/12359851/page/2#M15457

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Chip Sprague

Participant

No mention of a fix in 10.4: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/fixed-issues.html#aug-2021

Anyone know if it is fixed or not?

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The Youngrens

Participant

Hey there!

So this is a problem with the most recent versions of Lightroom after 10.1.1 and Adobe is aware of the bug but for some reason they're having a tough time fixing it. You need to revert back to v10.1.1. It started presenting with v10.2, was fixed for a time with v10.3, but the problem is back again 😞 We just reverted back to the previous problem today because the issue started happening again. Hope that helps!

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The Youngrens

Participant

Sorry - meant to say "we reverted back to the previous version today" 🙂

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Andy JazzAuthor

Participating Frequently

Brilliant, thankyou. I'll give it a go.

I thought I was the only person having this issue. Hopefully 10.1.1 will resolve it.

Cheers,

Andy

GoldingD

Legend

So, you have other catalogs. Ok, so do I

(community, lets not start that debate, One Cat, two Cat, more, it is not the point

Do the other catalogs misbehave the same way, in terms of batch renaming?

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Andy JazzAuthor

Participating Frequently

Just tried to rename a folder of 56 images in another catalogue, and it wouldn't rename. Then I selected the first image and it remaned it, then selected then next 4 images, it renamed 3, not the 4th but renamed the 5th..

I have had no trouble with this in the past, so I don't know why its happening now.

Andy.

Geoff the kiwi

Community Expert

Andy, definitely try resetting Preferences.. they can cause some strange
issues.
Google how to do it as I’m on my phone in the middle of the night in the
middle of Africa 😉😉
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Best regards

Geoff Walker

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GoldingD

Legend

Problem posting this reply

A experiment/diagnostic

Create a collection, call it test
Make the photos you want to rename members of test
In the collection, test, attempt the rename
Sort, hopefully success and failures sort away from one another so you can isolate them as a group, instead of seeing them commingled
Look at the failures, any thing common? File type, Virtual copy? a flag?
Compare to success, anything not common that stands out?

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Andy JazzAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thanks for your help. Never used collections before, so I will try this after I have exported the files and delivered them to the client.

The odd thing is, when you quite LR with this project open, it doesn't ask if I want to backup the catologue, which is odd.

Thanks again for your help.

Andy.

GoldingD

Legend

Not backing up upon exit

That would be due to a setting in Catalog Settings

GoldingD

Legend

Any error message?

If so, what is it?

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Andy JazzAuthor

Participating Frequently

Hi,

No error messages, doesn't even ask if I want to replace or use a special name everytime I try and rename the project, eventhough the first 27 files have been named.

Cheers,

Andy.

cmgap

Community Expert

Where is the process breaking down? Confirming you can rename 726 files as jpgs so what is it that is not working? Is it when you choose a particular file type? If that's the case can you export and rename a smaller number of images? Ten for example...

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Andy JazzAuthor

Participating Frequently

Hi,

It is when I want to rename the raw files in the libary, before i start an edit and exorting them.

Cheers,

Andy.

cmgap

Community Expert

Okay - can you rename a smaller number of Raw files... you can rename 1, can you rename 10? It doesn't make sense that you can rename 726 jpgs but not the Raw files... wondering if it is a RAM issue?

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