Renaming as original name after HD crash

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I'm having a lightroom problem that I can't seem to find the answer to anywhere. Here's the situation:

I had a hard drive crash a few months ago. Most all the files, I was able to recover from backups. However, some of my backup folders are renamed the original file name, while the ones in LR are the new names. I had originally thought that all I'd have to do was:

1) select all the photos in the "collection", rename as original filename
2) relink to the new folder where all the folders HAVE the original filename and
3) rename in LR, and voila!

BUT!!!! When I try to rename the images as their original, even though it still remembers the original filename, it says "photos will not be renamed because they are missing, or not writable". So, it won't write the new name to the already existing pictures, but I can't relink them until they are renamed, and I am having to go through entire weddings (with 1''' pictures EACH) and relink them by hand. I can't afford another extra 1'' hours of work!!!


IS THERE A WAY TO FORCE LR TO RENAME AS THE ORIGINAL FILE NAME???
PLEASE HELP!!!

Thank you for your time!

Hillary
 
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You could probably rename the originals in Bridge to match the LR names.
I have done this successfully for the same reason.
Don't lose the lesson though!!
 
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not an option

The original file folder, with all the original names, is unedited, so if I renamed them here, I'd have to go through all of them and individually pick out each image and match it up and rename it, so that's not really an option either (for saving time that is)
 
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If you rename those originals (or copies of them !!??!!) in bridge then open the LR catalog and find one of your "missing" files and ctrl/click that to access the relink menu. It will only link with images in the catalog already.
 
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Do you know anything about SQL? If so, I can let you have a script which I wrote to do this.

John
 
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Like I said, all the images, both the ones that were edited as being "chosen", and then non edits, are in the same folder. To "rename" all the ones in bridge, I'd have to go through each picture, look at the chosen one in lightroom, visually match it up to the one in bridge, rename that one, and then relink it. I'd have to do this for all 9'' proofs.
 
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