Renaming Imported Files

I recently had a number of old transparencies scanned at a local service bureau and delivered as jpegs on disc. The images import just fine into Lightroom from the disc, but when I try to rename them, I get a dialogue box telling me I can't rename them "...because they are missing or not writable."  Thinking, perhaps, that Lightroom was somehow trying unsuccessfully to rename them on the source disc, I tried downloading them to my computer first, ejecting the disc, then importing them into Lightroom.  Same result.  What am I doing wrong?  How do I rename these images?

One possibility, if the images have been copied from a read-only CD or DVD: each file may have retained a "read-only" file attribute put there when it was originally written to the disk.
This shouldn't happen, but in some circumstances does. It can be easily corrected using your operating system's file browser. For example in Explorer you would select a number of images, right-click, click Properties, then in the dialog which opens, un-check the box next to "read only".
LR cannot rename images independently of their actual names inside the filesystem. However, you can still caption and keyword them etc, and put them into Collections, freely - since these operations are purely done "in paperwork" inside the Catalog - regardless of what they are called. Also virtual copies can be given your choice of "copy" name (supplementing their underlying physical filename).

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