Leading zeros in rename photos

When renaming a group of images it would be great if (as in Bridge) Lightroom would put in the leading zeros. I found it a pain to have to put in the extra zeros (using windows explorer) so they would appear in the correct order - even in bridge.

Hi Lee & Ian,
But this is for importing images.
After importing and editing I now want to rename the keepers. I've edited 500 files down to 385 and want to sequentially rename the keepers.
From the help file;
Numbering Specifies a text string using an import number based on how many photos have been imported into the library, sequence number, or image sequence number. (This element is only available in the Filename Template Editor, when importing or auto-importing photos, and in the Text Template Editor, when creating slideshows, printing photos, or creating web photo galleries.)
Or am I missing something????

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First of all, LR truly rocks. Any Adobe folk reading this, please take this note as a massive pat on the back for your team. There's a lot of childish and naive negativity from people posting in this forum. And I suspect from folk who are not really your key market for this app. I feed my kids by running a photography business and have been shooting digital since the early 90s...ya know...
LR will be looked at as a massive sea change in the development of digital photography. The first time the entire workflow process is truly viable from end to end. What will make LR the ultimate winner in it's field is simply the integration with Photoshop. Aperture, Capture One etc cannot ever beat LR regarding this and so, just like the way that Excel and Word and Powerpoint all work together and everyone uses them, LR will inevitably become the de facto standard way of managing RAW images for pro photographers.
Even with the few bugs (specifically file movingon Mac OS10.4.9) LR has shaved HOURS off our workflow. We shoot around 250 gigs of images a month in our weddings and event business. Now all of our editors use LR. No more Capture One etc for us.
Here's the question - There seems to be no way to add leading zeros to a file rename command. So if you rename a batch of images they appear as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 etc so now when I look at them in Bridge or other apps, they are now sorted 1,10,11, etc
Now let me tell ya this is a pain.
Any comments or comfort that is is a known issue would be appreciated. All we want is a way to have the rename add the leading zeros like most other apps do...
Best to all
William Henshall
www.californiaweddingphotos.com
PS By the way, I am a HARD *** about shoddy unstable software sold to pro photographers as the "prefect solution" that doesnt work as advertised...I am that guy that the tech support guys at certain companies dread. Yep, I simply expect an app to do what it says, just like the car I buy. I once resorted to sending the CEO of a certain software company an invoice for my time restarting, reinstalling the OS and bug finding another similar app. You can image, I got a personal call...heh...

William-
 
 I just changed a folder of 85 images' names, and typed in 001 as my starting number. While no zeroes were prepended, the pix show up in order both in the Finder and in Bridge CS3.
 
 Say a bit more about file moving on your Macs.....
 
 
John "McPhotoman"
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Can Lightroom use leading zeroes?

My file naming convention is 3-digit with leading zeroes. This allows the files to naturally sort in the correct order. I cannot stand to see a list of files such as: 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 21, 22, 23, etc.
This is such a simple thing, but I don't seem to be able to get LR to do this for me. Bridge will do it... Hm-m-m-m-m.
Oh. I'm on a Mac G4 Powerbook, CS3 upgrade and LR.
Thanks,
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I don't keep the files I export or import them back into LR. I exported from an ordered collection and renamed them so they would "float" in order alphabetically for a slide show.
If you are going to be using LR, won't you want to move your photos from iview? Why don't you post another question about iview. There must be people here who have converted from it. First, try a search of this forum for iview.
I've found that if there is a photo taken within the same second, LR adds something, I think a -1 to the name.
Metadata. There are some things written, even entire books on DAM (Digital Asset Management). I've had some experience cataloging my photos in other products so I kind of knew what I wanted to do in LR. Think through how you will want to view your photos, what you will want to search on, etc.
For example, me. We do a lot of traveling. I want to be able to find all photos from a particular trip. I do folder by trip, so that works so I wanted a program that supported my own folder organization, which LR does. But folders don't identify a photo if it gets out of its folder, so I chose an IPTC tag to use to identify them. I chose Job Identifier after reading about the tags and what they are usually used for.
Non-travel photos are foldered by date, mostly. So to find a picture of a particular flower or a particular person, I will need keywords. I also like the fact that you can order or find things by capture date in LR. That's because we are old and we have lots of photos from long long ago.
I use all of the location fields. "location", city, state, country. I use "location" for let's say Grand Canyon National Park, which isn't in a city. Someone else noted here that they put something like that in city because it isn't in a city and it means you don't have to look two places for the "top layer" of that sequence of country, state, city/location. I think that's a good idea, but I'd already started, so I kept what I was doing.
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http://www.iptc.org/IPTC4XMP/
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/imagedatabases/iptc_core_mapped.pdf
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/IPTC.html
http://www.ap.org/apserver/userguide/codes.htm
http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/about/projects/digitalmedia/images/resources/metadata-schema s.html

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>What if I just wanted to name the images 0001, 0002, 0003, etc? Can't seem to figure that out.
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over the past couple months, I've been attempting to rename photos in IPhoto form their original "P1043435556654"-type names to more appropriate ones. In doing so, I've discovered that I went about it all wrong. of the couple thousand pics in my catalog, I've "changed the name" of a couple hundred by going into the finder - photos - originals - roll number - then found each Jpg and simply renamed it.
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Move the iPhoto Library Folder to the desktop
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actually the output value of c should have leading zeros added to it for length 16.
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Effect
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