Change image filenames in Find and Replace

[Paul Smith]

Hi,

I often have to change the prefix in my file names, e.g., change batch of filenames from "1234-John-Doe-xxx.jpg" to "abcd-John-Doe-xxx.jpg".

It would be very useful to be able to make this change via the "Find and Replace" option.  I realize that, at the moment, Find and Replace only applies to the IPTC fields. Is there any chance this could be extended to include filenames?

Cheers,

Paul

[Kirk Baker]

Paul,

I often have to change the prefix in my file names, e.g., change batch of filenames from "1234-John-Doe-xxx.jpg" to "abcd-John-Doe-xxx.jpg".

It would be very useful to be able to make this change via the "Find and Replace" option.  I realize that, at the moment, Find and Replace only applies to the IPTC fields. Is there any chance this could be extended to include filenames?

It is an often-requested feature.  We may add that in the future.

But you can do most of this type of thing with the Rename dialog and clever use of substring-extraction on the {filenamebase} variable.  For instance your example could be:

abcd{filenamebase:5}

-Kirk

[Paul Smith]

Paul,

But you can do most of this type of thing with the Rename dialog and clever use of substring-extraction on the {filenamebase} variable.  For instance your example could be:

abcd{filenamebase:5}

-Kirk

Brilliant!  Thank you, Kirk, you've just saved me tons of work! 

-Paul

[Kirk Baker]

Paul,

But you can do most of this type of thing with the Rename dialog and clever use of substring-extraction on the {filenamebase} variable.  For instance your example could be:

abcd{filenamebase:5}

Brilliant!  Thank you, Kirk, you've just saved me tons of work! 

You're welcome.  The complete documentation for this capability is in the version 4.6.3 manual on page 51 and you can read more about it there.

-Kirk