[Leica] Lightroom Problems

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

Bridge does it.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-podcast-designers/batch-rename-files-with-custom-strings-in-bridge-cs5-/

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
wrote:

> That is a good thought Peter which I will look into. Thank you for the
> suggestion.
>
> Gerry
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 6 May 2015, at 18:57, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
> >
> > Gerry,
> >
> > do you have a package that will allow you to do a bulk rename? It would
> be a bit
> > tedious, but you ought then to be able to rename all the .xmp files
> according to
> > your new convention.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >> On 06/05/2015 14:55, Gerry Walden wrote:
> >> I am having problems with Lightroom and I am not sure of a way out of
> it. I will try and explain.
> >>
> >> My numbering system for images was to start with a year number followed
> by W for Walden, and this was done in-camera so I would end up with a
> number such as 14W3257, but I decided this would date an image too clearly
> to viewers so I decided to replace the initial number with letters based on
> the alphabet, and I have done this through Lightroom.  This means the
> example above would become ADW-3257 instead. What has happened is that
> whilst the image file has been renumbered the associated .xmp file has not
> been resulting in the loss of all captioning for the renumbered files. The
> disassociated .xmp files are appearing in LR in what I can best describe as
> blank slides (i.e. no image) and showing the original file number. These
> are marked ?!? as missing.
> >>
> >> It is relatively easy to re-associate them on a one-to-one basis but
> this is very tedious, and despite putting questions on the Adobe forums and
> Luminous Landscape nobody has so far come up with an answer.
> >>
> >> I am posting this here partly to warn others that this could happen,
> and secondly to see if anybody can suggest a viable solution. I am now
> converting images I know to be OK to .dng files in the hope that it will
> not happen again.
> >>
> >> Gerry.
> >>
> >> Gerry Walden
> >> www.gwpics.com
> >> Fujifilm X-World Photographer
> >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> >> +44 (0)797 287 7932
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Gerry Walden
> >> 023 8046 3076
> >>
> >>
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> >
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