How do I automatically rename all files in a folder if it found a specific word? Ex: Images copy.png

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Adobe Bridge has Tools > Batch Rename. 

[jane-e]

I didn't know about the "String Substitution" part of Batch Rename @c.pfaffenbichler. This will be useful!

~ Jane

[Stephen Marsh]

Hi Jane, you can tell that a programmer named the feature and not the marketing department! 🙂

In the basic form, it is just a find/replace command as you would expect in MS Word, Adobe InDesign etc.

However, once the regular expression checkbox is ticked, the training wheels come off!

[jane-e]

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@Stephen Marsh wrote:

In the basic form, it is just a find/replace command as you would expect in MS Word, Adobe InDesign etc.

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I'll look into it, Stephen! Regular expression plays a significant role in InDesign — both in Find/Replace and in Paragraph styles — and I use it a lot there.

Jane

[Stephen Marsh]

Great, without regex, batch rename would be very limited indeed.

The following example gave me a headache, it was only after doing it the complex way that a simpler approach later became apparent:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/02/bridge-vs-lightroom-batch-rename.html

I love how there are so many valid but different regular expressions to achieve the same result, different people look at the same problem differently depending on their knowledge and experience with regex.

[Stephen Marsh]

@ashike.iqbal 

Please post a cropped screenshot of the action with the save step fully expanded and wide enough to view all content.

Also check your preferences as per this image:

[ashike.iqbal]

 Hers is the action details

[Stephen Marsh]

Thank you, however, I can't really tell what is going on... I did specifically ask:

"Please post a cropped screenshot of the action with the save step fully expanded and wide enough to view all content."

Try setting your Preferences > File Handling to use "do not apply copy" as per my screenshot.

[ashike.iqbal]

Still appear " copy".

[Stephen Marsh · Accepted solution]

Again, OK, now the screenshot is cropped, but I still can't see the full width of the recorded command and the filename as the panel is not wide enough.

Not sure if this makes a difference, did you remove original step and re-record save as step again now that the preference setting is active? I can't get my test to add the word copy!

[ashike.iqbal]

Great! My problem is fixed! Thank you so much Stephen 🙂

[Stephen Marsh]

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@ashike.iqbal wrote:

Great! My problem is fixed! Thank you so much Stephen 🙂

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Excellent, glad we got there and that you have a solution!

Can you rename the topic title to something else? What you really wanted to do was save as without the word " copy" being added – not automatically rename all existing files, what you really wanted was to stop this happening in the first place.