Undo Batch Rename

I did something a little stupid (its late and im tired...honest...)
I created a new album from selection of photos and batch renamed the Version names, not thinking, and now the original files in the original album have had their Version names renamed.
Is it possible to undo this?
I can through metadata, copy the File Name and paste it in Version Name,which fixes it, but id rather not have to do that for each individual 400 odd photos!
Please Help!

Not sure you can "undo," but what do you want the names to actually be? Why not reset them?
If you want the ORIGINAL name (e.g. _P4P3323.CR2), you can just batch rename files using the master filename. When you do "Batch Change..." and select the Version Name Format, create a new one and use "Master Filename..." as the criteria. It will change them to the name they had when you originally imported the photos (which is typically the camera-provided name), which shows up in the Metadata view as "File Name."

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