Michael Seltzer
New member
Hello,
I have Photoshop LR version 1, and have a problem. My images weren't sorting properly when I tried to sort in the Grid view using "Filename" as the sort order. I use underscores to separate my filenames into sections, and another user on the LR User-to-User forum suggested it might be the underscores I was using in the filenames that was causing LR not to be able to sort properly. He seems to have been correct (I tried replacing the underscores with dashes in a small folder, and then they all sorted fine).
My problem is I have about 5K photos in LR, many with virtual copies associated with them. I don't want to rename each file individually, which means I have to use an external utility to rename them. Easy enough, but then LR doesn't recognize them anymore. As far as know, the only way to get LR to recognize them is to re-associate each file individually (may as well rename them individually to begin with), or remove all the files form the LR database, and import the newly named files. If I do that, though, I lose the virtual copies I made.
Oddly, if I open LR first, allowing it to find all the files, and then rename the files outside of LR, it will change the name of some of the images, but not all of them. Most of the images keep their original name, and LR no longer knows where the file is located.
Is there any way to bulk-rename a bunch of files, and still retain the virtual copies in LR?
Thanks,
Michael
PS Is there any Technical Support available for LR? I can go the the User-to-User forum, but I can't find a way to contact Technical Support for LR (CS3, yes, but not LR).
I have Photoshop LR version 1, and have a problem. My images weren't sorting properly when I tried to sort in the Grid view using "Filename" as the sort order. I use underscores to separate my filenames into sections, and another user on the LR User-to-User forum suggested it might be the underscores I was using in the filenames that was causing LR not to be able to sort properly. He seems to have been correct (I tried replacing the underscores with dashes in a small folder, and then they all sorted fine).
My problem is I have about 5K photos in LR, many with virtual copies associated with them. I don't want to rename each file individually, which means I have to use an external utility to rename them. Easy enough, but then LR doesn't recognize them anymore. As far as know, the only way to get LR to recognize them is to re-associate each file individually (may as well rename them individually to begin with), or remove all the files form the LR database, and import the newly named files. If I do that, though, I lose the virtual copies I made.
Oddly, if I open LR first, allowing it to find all the files, and then rename the files outside of LR, it will change the name of some of the images, but not all of them. Most of the images keep their original name, and LR no longer knows where the file is located.
Is there any way to bulk-rename a bunch of files, and still retain the virtual copies in LR?
Thanks,
Michael
PS Is there any Technical Support available for LR? I can go the the User-to-User forum, but I can't find a way to contact Technical Support for LR (CS3, yes, but not LR).