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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: sbuttrick on February 28, 2007, 07:52:58 am

Title: Renaming File / Folders
Post by: sbuttrick on February 28, 2007, 07:52:58 am

In the Lightroom video, Library #1, Jeff demos changing a folder name in Lightroom which also changes the name on his hard drive.  I have tried this but it doesn't seem to work on my Mac.  I changed a folder name in Lightroom, but the folder name on my hard drive did not change.  What am I doing wrong?  I also tried renaming a few files and that didn't work either.

Any help would be appreciated.

Scott

Title: Renaming File / Folders
Post by: francofit on February 28, 2007, 08:00:13 am

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In the Lightroom video, Library #1, Jeff demos changing a folder name in Lightroom which also changes the name on his hard drive.  I have tried this but it doesn't seem to work on my Mac.  I changed a folder name in Lightroom, but the folder name on my hard drive did not change.  What am I doing wrong?  I also tried renaming a few files and that didn't work either.

Any help would be appreciated.

Scott
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If you tried on a "root"(top level) folder,  then (as stated somewhere in the manuals or the help on line or dialog...) the automatic renaming of the physical folder is not supported for top-level folders.   Otherwise on all the others subfolders it works as per Jeff's demo.

See also this [a href=\"http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14992]thread[/url]

Title: Renaming File / Folders
Post by: sbuttrick on February 28, 2007, 08:07:55 am

Thanks Franco, it was a root folder.  I tried it on a subfolder and it worked perfectly.  Can you also rename individual images this way?

Scott

Title: Renaming File / Folders
Post by: sbuttrick on February 28, 2007, 08:13:52 am

Answered my own question, thanks.

Oh, the answer is yes.

Title: Renaming File / Folders
Post by: francofit on February 28, 2007, 08:18:27 am

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Thanks Franco, it was a root folder.  I tried it on a subfolder and it worked perfectly.  Can you also rename individual images this way?

Scott
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You are welcome.
I don't think that you can get the automatic renaming behaviour with single images... but I'm not 100% sure.