XnView Software

Ah! You're a genius! That worked perfectly!

Thanks so much for working with me on this! For a free product, you really can't ask for prompter, more courteous support!

Kudos!!!

Wonderful! I'll try it out as soon as I get home tonight!

I don't know if you wanted me to reply here or in the email.

I tried the test version you sent. I got excited because to begin with it worked. Then I tried to rename again and got the error. I did a lot of playing and came up with the following...

If I rename a batch of files immediately after ...

Everything is loaded. I've actually left it up on the same image and come back hours later. The same is still true. Note that the file rename test under explorer failed even when XnView was in another folder.

That said, I did some careful testing just now, and the locking problem seems to only ...

A clue...

I just tried a file rename in good old windows explorer while XnView was open on the directory in question. It failed due to the file being "used by another person or program." This is true even if the file being renamed is not highlighted/selected in XnView. Moving out of the directory ...

Nope. No go there, either.

Honestly, that wouldn't be much of an end-solution for me, anyway. My workflow includes renaming batches of photos based on their contents (filenames like 2007-02-02 Suzy 01, etc). It's one of the reasons I absolutely love XnView. It still works great with JPGs, but I'm ...

Now I'm really confused...

I got it to work once, by choosing View->View As->List. Following that, it stopped working. Following that, I unchecked View->Preview Pane->Show. But it still won't work.

I think you may be on to something though. I've noticed I can't rename *.MOV files easily in XnView ...

Okay, to simplify, I simply tried the template "#####". Same result.

Sorry... it wasn't posting right... see my update above...

Nope. I double checked and the only other file in the directory (other than the images I'm trying to rename) is a zip file named stuff.zip. To be sure I removed it to and tried again. I'm selecting all the files using CTRL+A and then choosing Tools->Batch Rename.

Incidentally, I had the pattern ...

Is batch rename of Canon raw files supported in 1.90? I have been trying to do this, but receive the rather generic "Error renaming file" when attempting to rename the files. If I don't have any CR2 files selected when this happens, everything works fine.

Is this supported? Am I doing something ...