Adobe lightroom renaming files

To rename your photos when importing, go to the File Renaming Tab on the right-hand side of the Import dialog box. This is just the type of renaming that you want to do on import - a process that you will want to do for EVERY photo you import. Check the "Rename Files" box in the File Renaming panel.

From the Template drop-down menu you can choose one of those options. If needed, new options will open up in the File Renaming Panel to help you.

If you want to make a custom option or preset, choose "Edit" at the bottom of the drop-down menu selected above. A new box will open up. Delete all the text in the white box. Then choose the options that will give you the result you are looking for. Each drop-down menu below the large white box has several options for you to choose from. Saturday night I fiddled a bit in the Preferences because downloads were bringing in jpeg copies of images and dublicates.

Shot new images to a new folder in the same catalog on Sunday. After culling and editing Sunday's shoot I could not rename files. Well, I could rename two dng files that were created from Sunday images using the photomerge setting in LR. And the first handful less than 10 Nikon RAW files renamed. But nothing after that. The individual image files, the folders and even the external drive, all Read and Write. I'm stumped about where else to look for help.

I know that I selected the entire set images every time. FWIW, I get no error message. I simply select files and the progress bar moves super fast as if it's renamed the whole set, but then when I look only those dng photomerge files are renamed, not the entire set of images.

Here's my computer info: About half of my drive is available. Adobe Support Community. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. To work around this, without moving the photos from their original folders , select the images, create a Collection, and reorder the images within the collection.

Note:Custom Sort orders are not available for Smart Collections. Once you create a custom sort order, you can still use the Sort option in the tool bar to sort by other means like Capture Time and File Type and when you reselect Custom Order, Lightroom Classic will remember your Custom Sort Order. I sure wish I could rename files while in the Develop module. If you copy your Raw files to your hard drive, then use the Add option in the Import window to import them into your Lightroom Catalog, you can only rename those files after they have been imported.

This also applies to photos that you have previously imported, and decided to rename. Otherwise, just select the appropriate Folder or Collection. In the next window select a file renaming preset from the drop-down menu. The options include any custom presets you may have made. However, you will notice that some of the options are different. For example, the Shoot Name tab is no longer available. So I had to customize the preset I made earlier by using the Custom Text tab instead.

There are also more ways to rename files using metadata. The main one is that it is the only way you can rename files already imported into Lightroom. Another is that, if you are supplying photos to a client, you may choose to rename them here after deciding which images from the shoot make the cut.

That way they will be named sequentially without any gaps. You may also rename files this way if your client has a specific naming method they want you to use. This is common when it comes to clients such as picture libraries and magazines.

Go to the File Naming tab, tick the Rename to: box and select a preset from the menu. You can edit a preset or choose a custom preset. The Filename Template Editor gives you the same options as the previous method of renaming files already imported into Lightroom. A caveat — bear in mind that if you change the names of your files when you export them, you will end up with a new set of files with different names.

You would have Raw files named something like this. As the main purpose of Lightroom is to convert Raw files into photo files, upon export the extensions, but not the filenames themselves, would change.

That makes it easy to match the filenames of your exported JPEG files with those of your Raw files if you need to. But if you change the filenames at export, it becomes much more difficult to match them to the corresponding Raw files.

Why rename files at export?