file rename question

[doorman]

i have 355 photos with duplicate filenames within the name itself.  (a batch process within photoshop)

for example.

DTWCLawrenceburg20090002DTWCLawrenceburg20090002.jpg   

the last four digits is the ingest sequence number.  the 355 photos have been pulled from about 2k images so the next photo after 0002 would be 0011.

i would like to rename them correctly and keep the last four digits of each file.

any ideas.

thanks,
joey

[Kirk Baker]

Joey,

i have 355 photos with duplicate filenames within the name itself.  (a batch process within photoshop)

for example.

DTWCLawrenceburg20090002DTWCLawrenceburg20090002.jpg   

the last four digits is the ingest sequence number.  the 355 photos have been pulled from about 2k images so the next photo after 0002 would be 0011.

i would like to rename them correctly and keep the last four digits of each file.

I'm not certain that I have enough information to answer your question.  Given the above example, what would you want your filename to end up as?  Please also give a second example as well.

-Kirk

[doorman]

giving the file name above.   i would like to have it DTWCLawrenceburg20090002.jpg    the last four digits is the ingest sequence of about 2k pics ingested and i pulled 355 and processed them.  i would like to have all the photos to be "DTWCLawrenceburg2009"  i need to keep the last four digits of every file that has to be renamed.  i hope this helps with my situation.

thanks,
joey

[Kirk Baker]

Joey,

giving the file name above.   i would like to have it DTWCLawrenceburg20090002.jpg    the last four digits is the ingest sequence of about 2k pics ingested and i pulled 355 and processed them.  i would like to have all the photos to be "DTWCLawrenceburg2009"  i need to keep the last four digits of every file that has to be renamed.  i hope this helps with my situation.

As long as all of the photos start with "DTWCLawrenceburg2009" then this will do what you're looking for:

DTWCLawrenceburg2009{filenamebase:-4}

Just use the above as your Renaming string.

HTH,

-kirk

[doorman]

thanks so much.  this is what i was looking for.

many thanks,
joey