Carrying image adjustments to sidecar file

Question

Q1:  In LR v1, there was a setting to make sure that any changes made to the photograph were reflected both in the catalog file and the sidecar file. In LR v2, I can't find the setting to make sure sure that sidecar files reflect my changes, although this appears to be happening anyway.
     Where is this setting in LR 2?
Q2:  I'd like to change the naming convention on a series of files already downloaded to my hard disk and imported into file room.   For instance: _8886.cr2 should be "capture date"-8886.cr2.  Is there a way to do this in batch?
Thank you,
Robert Ades

Answer 1

Sure, but you need to create a new template.
Press F2   
From File Naming choose Edit..
From the Sequence and Date section, choose Date YYYY and then insert.
Add a Dash (-) in the textbox manually.
Then choose MM from the Sequence and Date section and again press Insert.
In the Text box add a dash.
You can probably guess you'll be clicking on DD next.
Then another dash,
then finally choose Sequence # (001).
Then save as a Preset from the Preset list.
This applies a new name based on the image creation date