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Subject: [Leica] Slightly OT: How To Batch Rename Mac Image Files?
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (Philippe Amard)
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:57:06 +0100
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Simply don't copy first - you have an option on upload with LR that 
allows you to copy and rename, select the appropriate folder, and you're 
done
ph


Robert D. Baron wrote:

>The problem is that I have to rename them before I move them from the
>SD card to their folder on the hard drive; otherwise they will
>overwrite the existing file of the same name.
>
>I don't ordinarily import from the SD card into LR.
>
>I copy them to a folder on the laptop's hard drive; and to an external
>hard drive; and then I import them into LR from the laptop's hard
>drive.
>
>--Bob
>
>==On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>  
>
>>Bob,
>>Rename them in Lightroom when you import them.
>>
>>Leo Wesson
>>photographer?videographer
>>leo at leowesson.com
>>817?733?9157
>>
>>On Nov 8, 2009, at 10:25 PM, "Robert D. Baron" <rbaron at concentric.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Mac newbie here.  I just discovered - when loading images from SD
>>>cards to my laptop - that both my new Canon S90 and G11 were assigning
>>>identical file names (numbers) to image files.  I can fix this in the
>>>future, but as to the existing image files, is there a way to batch
>>>rename them before loading them into Lightroom?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>--Bob
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
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