 Jennifer Cresse |
Problem with Batch Rename in Bridge I have used the "Batch Rename" feature in Adobe Bridge about a million times. I always use it to rename my Raw images before changing them to JPEGs. ... this time instead of leaving the file extension as .NEF, it changed them all to unix executable files that cannot be opened in Photoshop. I had backups so I can recover, but I still need to rename the files, and I really don't want to do it manually. Has this happened to anyone else? I didn't change anything before renaming ... any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Richard Lynch |
You never really want to change the extensions on an image file. If you do something like change a .TIF to .JPEG, it is still a .TIF and Photoshop will try and read it as a JPEG and fail to do so. In your example, you rename to something other than NEF, which Photoshop will be using to identify the files, and you will likely not be able to open them. Why not just rename them all back to [whatever].NEF? If there are other identifiers you need there, add them in sequence, like: [whatever]_[identifier].NEF or [whatever].[identifier].NEF I think you can have 4 "." before Photoshop or elements starts choking on them (on mac or PC, I can't remember). Underscores you can have more of but there is a file name limitation for cross compatibility of 30 characters. The only reason I can think that Adobe uses the extension rather than a more sophisticated means of IDing a file type (there used to be a great program for this, but it was expensive, and pretty much all it did was identify and open poorly stored image files) is that it is easier and less expensive for them. But what is the purpose of renaming the Raw file? You might want to open and then save as something else ... but renaming you are just making a copy of the same thing, and you already have backups from what you say. What is the goal of renaming
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