Renaming problem

Im on a trip, working off my Mac laptop with LR 1.1. Id like to import all my shots (RAW, imported as .dng) and JPEGs from a different camera) into one folder for the trip. I started the trip fresh with no photos in the catalog.
Ive run into problems in which LR will stop renaming all the shots in a folder, say that one shot cant be renamed, and I cant continue until I click o.k. So I may have 763 shots in a folder, but it will end with say, 762 as the final shot.
Ive tried exiting LR, renaming the shots in Photo Mechanic, but that seems to cause problems then when I access them in LR.
Ive deleted all the shots from the catalog and reimported from my backup files on my external hard drive. But the problem remains with not being able to rename some shots.
Cause and cure for this?

You could try using the Adobe DNG Converter application (free download from Adobe) to first convert and rename all of your RAW files to DNG. Then import the DNG's into LR. I've also had problems renaming DNG's in LR after importing from a card. So now I use the DNG Converter to convert my Canon CRW files into DNG... I don't use LR's import/convert to DNG feature, there seems to be a bug in how it is converting RAW to DNG upon import from a card. Hope this helps.

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