Problem locating photos in LR5 after batch renaming them

Hello
I imported and edited several hundred photos. Then, I batch renamed several dozen photos using Bulk Rename utility. Naturally, LR showed an exclamation mark icon in the upper right corner of each of the missing(renamed) pics. After clicking on the exclamation mark I choose "Locate" and manually located the photo. On the bottom I checked the "find nearby photos" checkbox. LR located the missing photo but doesn't see the other renamed photos. I think the "find nearby photos" is only useful when you move photos to a different folder, not when you rename them. Any solutions for my situation?

Yeah, I guess it's the only way. Thank you. This is silly, but for some reason I thought I wasn't able to batch rename in LR

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