File re-imported lose their original name

[Bluebird2]

Thank you for this plugin - so appreciated.

A small comment ; when exporting, the files lose the original names. This causes a management issue when the tonemapped file re-imported especially when sorted by file name - vital for large projects where 500+ image stacks exist.

[michaelkoetter]

Currently, the file end up with a name like {OriginalName}_SNSHDR_{NumberOfImages}.{tif,jpg} in the folder of the source images (of the last source image that was exported, to be precise).
So if I understand your request correctly, you are suggesting that the files would just be named {OriginalName}.{tif,jpg}?
I think this could be implemented as an option, where one could specify a file name pattern (similar to the rename functionality when using the "Export to disk" dialog).

As a workaround, you can use the "Save as..." function in SNS-HDR GUI and just change the default name when saving the image.

[Bluebird2]

Hi Michael,

There might be something strange going on then :)

If I export from LR (either TIF or original), then the resulting file name saved is something like : C:\Users\MikeG\AppData\Local\Temp\9C4750FA-B838-45FB-B134-984A3AD0E3D8\006-untitled_SNSHDR_6.tif

In LR, this ends up as 006-untitled_SNSHDR_6.tif

The original stack of images were named mg-1211.cr2 to mg-1217.cr2.

I would ideally like the beginning of the resulting file name to be from mg-1211-{anything} to mg-1217-{anything} ; as long as it begins with one of the names in the stack, then it will get reimported into the correct place.

Thank you very much indeed for all this work - so appreciated.

Mike

[michaelkoetter]

that's strange indeed, looks like Lightroom is renaming the exported files (which it shouldn't) - I'll look into it and see if I can replicate the issue.

[Bluebird2]

Did some testing and figured it out. If you have previously exported to the hard drive with a custom file name, the SNS export routine retains this custom name rather than use the default.

When I un-checked the Custom Name option for Hard Drive export and then flipped back to SNS Export, it is fine.

Thanks for the prompting to get me to dig further.

Mike

[michaelkoetter]

Thank you for testing this, and for finding this issue in the plugin. I think the plugin should reset the naming scheme to "original" if possible. I'll try to implement this in one of the next releases.