Find-and-replace

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Find-and-replace

Postby BarbaraC » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:02 am

Currently, there's no easy way to replace a file that appears throughout a show with another, and yet I'm sure all users have to do this periodically. Something similar to MS Word's Find-and-Replace function would save huge amounts of time. A work-around is to give the new graphic the same name as the original, but this works only if the file types are the same. At this very moment, I have 40 instances of a PSD file that have to be replaced by 40 instances of a PNG file. I'd be a much happier camper if I could type in the name of the file to replace and then the name of the file to replace it.

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Re: Find-and-replace

Postby im42n8 » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:46 am

Ditto! I've had to replace instances of a TIFF with JPG or PNG. Time consuming to do it manually! This would be a nice-to-have feature!

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Re: Find-and-replace

Postby owenrp » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:25 pm

Ditto.
It's surprising that Lightroom 2 doesn't even have this capability.
I've renamed a batch of JPG's (in Bridge) with a mistake in the naming & was stuck with the new names because I couldn't replace the error part of the file names.
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Re: Find-and-replace

Postby jdgouk » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:29 pm

Agree - would be a great feature. In meantime only way I seem to able to do this is using the Excel utility on the following post from Guy.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9559&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=excel

You can load in your show, then use Excel's find and replace to change what you want. A PITA I know, but better than doing it all manually.

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Re: Find-and-replace

Postby gpsmikey » Thu Jan 01, 2009 4:03 pm

While it would be nice if Photodex would include that feature, it should be fairly easy to do in any text editor since the .psh file is just a text file. Make a backup copy of it (always practice safe hex :lol: ). Open the .psh file in your text editor of choice and play the find/replace game. Save again as a plain .txt file if you have to then rename to the .psh (some utilities don't like it if you don't name things what they think you should).

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Re: Find-and-replace

Postby owenrp » Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:39 pm

That's a good work around for PSP Mikey
What I really want is to batch rename the content of JPG/PSD file names as they appear in W.Explorer/Bridge/Lightroom etc with a "find & replace" mode.
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