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January 4, 2024
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Elements Organizer 2024 and file renames

  • January 4, 2024
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I've just renamed a few hundred file names using File Manager and expected Organizer to update the catalog accordingly. It doesn't appear to have done this.

Various files no longer show up in Organizer and what I see in the Folder view doesn't match what I see in File Explorer.

Should Organizer automatically deal with file renames or do I need to rebuild\fix the catalog?

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New Participant
January 5, 2024

I created a new catalog and deleted the old one.

I renamed approx 80 files and opened Organizer which began to 'reconnect files'. On checking the folder with the renamed files Organizer was showing the renamed files without issue.
I can only assume there was an issue with my original catalog.

Greg_S.
Community Expert
January 4, 2024

BTW, I just did a test too.  I found that if I renamed in File Explorer a file that is in an Organizer watched folder, the newly named file will be "found" but it will not be imported again.  Instead, when I accepted the invitation to import the found file, the existing file name was updated to the new name.  So, the Organizer is in fact smarter than some may think.

Greg_S.
Community Expert
January 4, 2024

ALL file operations (rename, move, delete) must be conducted in the Organizer if you want to keep your catalog intact.  However, as @Monte307  has advised, it should be a fairly easy job to reconnect what the Organizer believes are missing files, particularly if you have not moved them to different folders.

 

 

New Participant
January 4, 2024

After further investigation it appears to be that Organizer doesn't automatically update thumbnails - you have to do this manually which appears to be a strange way of managing file renames. Hopefully someone from Adobe will respond and confirm whether or not this is the only way of effectively coping with file renames.

Monte307
Inspiring
January 4, 2024

I tested renaming some files using File Manager, then in Organizer did a File-Reconnect-All Missing Files, and the renamed files were updated with their new names.  The thumbnails shouldn't need updating if all you did was rename the files.  (see attached).   Have you tried File-Reconnect-All Missing Files?  (see attached)