Linking Renamed Clips

Hi all,
Hopefully this hasn't been answered already, I've searched the forums. I'd like to link media that's been renamed. My A7s hasn't been maintaining its image database and consequently I have a lot of clips that have the same name so I went through and renamed my clips with automator thinking that Premiere would be able to link based on parameters other than name alone i.e. file size/time created. It appears this isn't possible. Has anyone had a similar problem and found a way to quickly re-link media? I have a lot of projects with clips all over the place and would like to automate the process as much as possible. Surely with the amount of information contained in a clip Premiere should have the option of re-linking using perhaps Spotlight's databases?
Thanks,
Danny

Yeah I've done that before and premiere is pretty good about getting files as long as they've only been moved or folders have been renamed. There's no way it appears of having premiere find for example "MVI_7402.MOV" if it's been renamed to "01_Paris_20141025.MOV" or something. I think it would be fairly simple for them to add the ability to locate media based on file size / clip length / date created etc as it's highly unlikely you'll have two clips with exactly the same file size. I don't really know what's involved in adding that feature but it'd be useful. For the moment I've just replaced all of my files with the backed up files which have the original name and going forward when I ingest footage I will immediately rename and add metadata before using the clips in any projects. If it were a few clips, manually would've been fine I'd just renamed thousands of clips without thinking of the consequences haha…

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