Aperture: How can I batch change one part of a file name

I have a file name format for my motor sport pictures
EventNameYear_CarNumber_ImageNumber
I have just named 600+ images but after publishing the images, I spotted I put the event year as 2014 instead of 2015.
How can I batch change the year but leave everything else the same? I've been through the batch change options but cannot work it out
I am on Aperture 3.6, MacBook Pro on Yosemite 10.10.2
Thanks

So you renamed the versions in Aperture, the rename was not just done on the export?
The names could be changed either in Aperture or on the exported files but as was noted it would require a script to do it. Doing the rename on the exported files would be the easiest, Applescript or possibly even Automator or any number of 3rd party apps could handle this rather easily. Name Mangler comes to mind as possibly being able to handle this.

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This the expected behavoir. You uploaded a document containing multiple users and then asked XML DB to delete any documnet that contained a user with the name in question. The problem here is that you are creating a mega document that contains an aggregation of user documents but then trying to work with individual user documents. This is a bad idea.
In general XML does not understand the concept of a collection of documents. It can only operate on one document at a time. Hence the tendancy to aggregate individual documents into a single larger document. Once you have an XML database, you can perform operations on collections of document, as easily as you can perform operations on individual documents, so the need to aggregate the individual documents together disappears.
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I had a corrupted user account on my iMac and after weeks of trying repairs I followed a forum suggestion to delete my account.
Before doing so I synced all my document folders and files (since 2004) over my LAN to an external hard drive that was attached to my MacMini. I then deleted the iMac account.
Next I backed up my Mac Mini user account with Time Machine. I then created a new iMac User account on the iMac and let the iMac access Time Machine to bring over all my MacMini preferences, settings, desktop, etc. I now have a fully functioning iMac user account.
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Whether your programs will be able to "find" your files or not will depend on the method the application uses to reference the files on the external drive. If you just want to switch the names around, you'll probably be okay.
If an external drive has a volume name of "Beta", its (POSIX) path is "/Volumes/Beta". If there's a file "file" on the root level of Beta, its file path would be "/Volumes/Beta/file".
If you have a second external hard drive that you rename to "Beta", its (POSIX) path will be "/Volumes/Beta 1", since the Volumes folder can't contain two items that have the same name. Similarly, if there's a file "file" on the root level of this second Beta drive, its file path would be "/Volumes/Beta 1/file".
If you were then to use the Finder or Disk Utility to unmount both of the drives and then re-mount them, whichever one you chose to remount first would be at "/Volumes/Beta", and the other would be at "/Volumes/Beta 1". In other words, their POSIX paths could potentially be mixed around.
As you might see, file paths can be somewhat fragile, and for that reason, Developers are encouraged to use more robust methods to refer to files such as aliases. The aliases they use are similar to the aliases you can create with the Finder. Aliases can potentially keep track of a file or folder even if you rename it, move it to a different place on the same hard drive, or move it to a different drive. Using aliases takes more work on the part of the developer than file paths do, so they don't always use them.
Since you just want to switch the names around, you should be okay. What I would do is to quit as many extraneous applications as possible (to quit your web browser if necessary select the text of my post and drag it to the Desktop to make a .textClipping. Then double-click on the .textClipping to see its text). Then open Disk Utility (in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder) and return back to the Finder. Use the Finder to rename the volumes and then switch back to Disk Utility. Select the volumes you renamed and choose File > Unmount for each of them. Then choose File > Mount for each of the volumes. Now you should be all set. (The reason you need to use Disk Utility to unmount them, is because, when you rename the first volume (Alpha to Beta, for example), it will "conflict" with the other volume name and so will be mounted at /Volumes/Beta 1 like I explained above. After you rename the second volume, there will no longer be a conflict, and so when you unmount and remount them, the volume you renamed to Beta will mount at /Volumes/Beta).
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