Can I Chnage the Name of a File After Its Been Uploaded on Lightroom

linkwoman

I must have set a picture to be a 4-star rating when all of the images in my catalog were were selected! Now all pictures t are set up to 4 stars! I didn't realize >one was selected. I don't know when I did it only information technology'south in the terminal 2' changes or so..... I've worked so hard to get all these ratings only right.... The changes I've made since so are renaming all the images in the itemize. Is at that place someway to discover the rating change in the database and remove it and so that I have my ratings back? ugg! Could I perhaps step backwards until I see the changes? How would i simply step back and back and dorsum?
thank you.

OK I FIGURED Information technology OUT. I only did CMD+Z a bunch until the star ratings came back! Whew! Interestingly the filenaming is non undone. that must be something that isn't tracked in undo/redo memory; i.east. it seems you cant disengage a file proper noun change. I don't like that!

Ok well here's the new trouble then;
The way I renamed the files includes the rating. And I had the ratings wrong, as you read to a higher place. And so all of the images now take 4star in the proper name even though I had other star ratings.

I renamed all of the files with masks as follows:
Appointment (YYYY)-Date (MM)-GlideCruiser_Sequence # ('one) AND So ON TOP OF THAT: (Filename)-(Rating)south
so that IMG_4893.dng became 2'1'-'6-GlideCruiser_73.dng
and then ii'1'-'6-GlideCruiser_73 -4s .dng
ALL of the files have 4s in the proper name although they are not all 4 star photos.

Then two questions:
1. How can I rename over again using the ORIGINAL filename? is that information accessible anywhere?
OR can I remove the last ten # of characters from the concluding name? I guess I could use some other programme to say the filename should be all but the last three characters (before the extension of course). That would get rid of the -4s. Just then LR would require me to find the missing files for all of them. Ugg.

ii. I'm thinking perhaps it'southward not a skillful idea to include the star rating in my naming in LR. Obviously I tin can filter in LR using rating and then I don't demand the rating in the proper noun. I only want to give a client his three-star, 4-star, and 5-star photos and when I realized that rating was an selection I idea that was an easy way to practise it. Hmmm... maybe I should only do the star rating renaming on an EXPORT. Duh. Well, can you come across star ratings in Windows Explorer and in Mac Finder? If so, how ? That would exist cool because I could tell the customer how to practise that. But if he loves an image I think is 3star and wants to send it to a modeling agency, I don't think he'd want information technology tagged as a 3star prototype. Then could he change the star rating in windows explorer or mac?

One more thing. Of course Now I'll be hyper-enlightened of the # of photos that are selected before I make a change. But I didn't think I was making a big change. I thought I was setting the rating on Ane photograph. I wish that LR had a dumb dumb monitor... if someone is virtually to brand all the photos in their itemize.... or a large # of photos have a particular rating, shouldn't it say "HEY! are you sure you want to make this modify to hundreds of photos?"

thank you in accelerate!

goodnight! volition bank check in the am.....

~Darby, aka. Linkwoman

Victoria Bampton

Ok, you can't get right of characters, just you tin rename dorsum to the original filename.

If in that location'southward only GlideCruiser ones, it would be easiest simply to utilise your first naming template once again, but I'yard guessing that differs?

To change dorsum to the original filename, first check it'south nevertheless in the information. Look in the Metadata console and at the elevation, change it to EXIF & IPTC view so that you come across the correct fields. The original filename should be listed in that location. If it is, go to the rename dialog, select Edit from its popular upwards menu and so that you go to the template editor, and just select the 'original filename' token from the Paradigm Name section. That should do the play a trick on.

Yes, a few of usa think that big numbers should be made more obvious. Most of the dialogs do say things similar 'delete 83 photos' just very few people read dialogs!

For time to come, I'd just add the star renaming when you consign. If you did it to your originals and then decided to change the rating, y'all'd have a chip of a pain renaming once again.

linkwoman

The original filename was there; cheers for telling me to bank check exif & iptc beccause it wasn't there before. It is not available every bit far equally I can tell- in the file rename dialog; so I can't seem to simply say hey rename all these files to the original file. Besides the original filename is non copy-able. So I would have to re-type. If I'm wrong on either, practice permit me know.

I was actually tired last dark. Today in the light of day I realize I could merely rename them all again w/ the first renaming scheme
Date (YYYY)-Appointment (MM)-GlideCruiser_Sequence # ('ane)
AND NOT USE THE 2ND ONE:
(Filename)-(Rating)southward

So, I take washed that at present and do have all my files named like 2'1'-'vi-GlideCruiser_'i.dng .... ii'1'-'6-GlideCruiser_146.dng

By the way I went to a really great Lightroom workshop put on by Michael Corsentino in Petaluma CA, USA (follow him on twitter: @Corsentino). 1 matter he suggested was employ a dissimilar catalog per job. It makes everything cleaner, keeps client images split up from each other, carve up from your personal images. It also makes archiving jobs easy - you archive the images and the catalog all on the same media and file it abroad. I'one thousand also in grad schoolhouse for photography and taking a class on photoshop but they spend two weeks on lightroom basics outset.... and the instructors take Non said to utilise split catalogs (in fact I'm certain that i really didn't know you could accept multiple catalogs!).... well if I hadn't had the Glide Cruiser pics in their own catalog, and so my fault of rating everything at once, and and so having to cmd+z back .... would have gotten rid of changes to other, unrelated files and actually messed things up. I'm so glad that I followed his advice and had the cruiser pics using their ain catalog.

The only drawback I see to having the multiple catalogs is that you can't search across multiple catalogs @ once. I'd love to say evidence me all my 5Star photos marked with the color red, across all catalogs, to become to my very best for portfolio purposes.

Ok, thanks again!

~Darby

Victoria Bampton

Ah, yep, I know Michael, prissy guy. Non sure I'd concur with his different catalog per job, merely I do go on work separate from person. If you'd had Glide Cruiser pics in 1 big catalog, as long equally you had catalog backups (which you lot should anyway) then you could have easily undone it once again, and so no disaster either way.

Original filename is hiding there somewhere - you practice have to go into the Edit > Filename Template Editor and it's one of the options in i of the pop-upwardly menus. I e'er save a preset which just has that original filename token then that it'southward easily accessible.

Anyway, great to hear you've got got that sorted. Breathe a sigh of relief again for now - and stick effectually, and you'll pick up loads of corking tips.

Brad Snyder

Darby, be aware that the multiple catalog idea, is 1 of Lr'south 'hot-button' 'religious war' topics. I believe that almost of us here are unmarried-catalogians, who ban those pagan plurals to the eternal darkroom.

I say that tongue-in-cheek, hoping to avoid having to read that thread rehashed, still again. (That's why nosotros volunteer moderators get paid the big-bucks.)

linkwoman

ha ha! I bet file naming conventions is another hair-raising topic. Well, thank you for the heads up, Brad! Who knew catalogs could cause such a rukus!!? All I know is Lightroom is totally amazing! I've been wanting a product like this forever!

BTW if you accept a 2nd to post a link to the all-time thread on the event, I'd dear to read it since I'm not sure which mode I'm going yet really. Thanks!
~Darby

Brad Snyder

In that location's an splendid read in our Tips/Tricks on the topic, but unfortunately we're having server problems, and the detail piece is unavailable.

The brusque and sugariness is:
one) unless you have quantifiable (fourth dimension or money) productivity, privacy, or business partitioning reasons, avert multiple catalogs.
2) Some folks go on ane major catalog that gets everything somewhen, and a smaller 2nd working catalog, primarily due to portability requirements, i.e., travel, home vs. piece of work/office, laptop vs. desktop, that kind of thing.
3)If someone tells you point bare to use split up catalogs, without explaining all of the pros and cons in some detail, I'd take that communication with a grain of salt.
4) everybody has an opinion, most of them aren't pertinent to your particular situation.

Can I Chnage the Name of a File After Its Been Uploaded on Lightroom

file renaming woes! can i go to ORIGINAL file proper noun? r ratings avail elsewhere

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