I used a bulk renamer external to dt - in fact I alternated between two (Advanced Renamer and Bulk Rename Utility) to ‘enjoy’ the variety. I have now completed renaming this portfolio of images - about 50,000 spread across about 500 folders. Remaining 95% of job is now mere busy work. Seems to be the result I wanted, so proof of concept achieved. ![]() I’ve done a few thousand images across a few dozen folders so far. finally, hit head on wall because of minor typing errors causing far reaching mayhem.set the appropriate dt preference for the sidecars to be read on the next start of dt.copy the sidecars into the dt managed image folder hierarchy.batch rename the sidecars to match their associated image file.arrange the sidecars in the temporary folder into batches with the same date limits.use the sort capability in the llghttable to identify batches of images taken on the same day, using the numerical remnant of the camera-assigned file name to define the batch limits.copy & import from temporary folder, using dt to generate required filenames, which include the numerical part of the camera assigned file name.copy images and sidecars to a temporary folder.That’s unworkable for the number of renames I need to do, so my process is: The alternative is to examine the exif data, using tools like Exiftools or gthumb on a file by file basis. The devil is in the detail though: my preferred renaming includes the date of the original capture, which dt can generate for me if I import using ‘copy and import’. That’s almost exactly on the process I had envisaged, and actually started earlier today. Are there better methods, using the asset management functions of darktable, that you might recommend? I’m considering using one of the excellent external batch rename products available for Windows and Linux and dealing with the ‘skulls’ afterwards, which will be tedious, given the number of batches of files which need to be renamed. I’ve spent half a day experimenting with the ‘rename images’ lua script but I can’t seem to get it to work effectively on more than a single image at a time - and often my attempts to craft a meaning file name in the script dialog result either in the file being completely vaporised or no rename happening when a message says that the file has been renamed, or the abrupt ‘unable to do variable subsitution, exiting’ message. But I can’t use ‘copy and import’ because these files come with sidecars. Import using ‘add to llbrary’ does not allow me to rename the files in the way that ‘copy & import’ does. I failed to remember that a large number of these images still had camera-generated files names. If you've got a digital camera, song collection, or just a bunch of files you'd like to rename or reorder, but you dread going in and doing it all one file at a time, you need a tool like Batch File Rename.In creating a separate catalog of images in darktable, I used ‘add to library’ in order to take advantage of a file organisation that met my needs. ![]() Batch File Renamer offers a Command Line prompt with CMD and Execute buttons at the bottom of the interface this option should appeal to system admins and the hard-core, old-school types out there. We clicked Start Renaming, and the program quickly did the deed, as we verified by opening the folder to see the changes for ourselves. Next we entered what we wanted to replace and what to replace it with, selected the File Attributes from a handy check box on the interface, and clicked Replace, which previewed the changes in the destination field. We selected LowerCase in the Generate Destination File Names entry field and clicked Generate. The scrolling tree view for browsing to the source destination is a bit awkward a standard file-browsing dialog would be an improvement. The user interface is a compact, efficient job with a single window displaying customizable fields: Dates, Source Filenames, Destination Filenames, Size, and so on. We noted that Batch File Renamer is portable, requiring no formal installation: just click the program file, and it runs. It's very small, totally portable, and free, too. It can sort file names by name, date, and time, and it previews all changes before making them. Batch File Renamer from Ezyware is, as its name suggests, a batch file renamer, a utility that can quickly and easily change the name, order, and attributes of files and folders, either singly or in large batches in this case, up to a million files at once.
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