Undo Batch Rename

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Undo Batch Rename

I did something a little stupid (its late and im tired...honest...)
I created a new album from selection of photos and batch renamed the Version names, not thinking, and now the original files in the original album have had their Version names renamed.

Is it possible to undo this?

I can through metadata, copy the File Name and paste it in Version Name,which fixes it, but id rather not have to do that for each individual 400 odd photos!
Please Help!

macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Apr 3, 2009 4:20 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 3, 2009 5:50 AM in response to joshfitz83

Not sure you can "undo," but what do you want the names to actually be? Why not reset them?

If you want the ORIGINAL name (e.g. _P4P3323.CR2), you can just batch rename files using the master filename. When you do "Batch Change..." and select the Version Name Format, create a new one and use "Master Filename..." as the criteria. It will change them to the name they had when you originally imported the photos (which is typically the camera-provided name), which shows up in the Metadata view as "File Name."

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Answer 2

tidysteve

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Apr 3, 2009 5:51 AM in response to joshfitz83

another batch change is in order, unless you want to delete that project/album and restore from a vault backup - if you have one ...

by far the easiest is to just batch rename again ...

you can create a preset to use master file name ...

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joshfitz83 Author

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Apr 3, 2009 3:21 PM in response to tidysteve

Ahh great!!
That is much easier than doing it one by one.

Is it possible to batch rename using the master name, but without the .jpg or .cr2 extension?

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Answer 4

tidysteve

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Apr 3, 2009 3:50 PM in response to joshfitz83

i don't know ... i have never tried it ... i don't use the master filename ever ...

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