Stuck renaming files w/ sidecar .dop (DxO) files

[mbr]

Greetings,

I'm totally stuck here - I want to rename all my raw files (.ARW) and there corrosponding sidecar files (.ARW.dop), but not all files have sidecar files.

Here is the sample dir Output:

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21.07.2017  14:06         8.242.432 exiftool.exe
24.07.2017  16:51        25.395.200 _DSC4733.ARW
24.07.2017  16:53        25.296.896 _DSC4734.ARW
07.08.2017  14:49             7.811 _DSC4734.ARW.dop
24.07.2017  16:54        25.198.592 _DSC4736.ARW
07.08.2017  14:49             7.791 _DSC4736.ARW.dop


Here's my current approach:
-ext ARW (only check .ARW files)
-tagsfromfile "%d%f.ARW (use metadate from this file)
-srcfile %d%f.ARW.dop (process the sidecar file as well, if any)

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exiftool -v -ext ARW -tagsfromfile "%d%f.ARW" -d "IMG_%Y%m%d%H%M%S.%%e" "-filename<CreateDate" -srcfile %d%f.ARW.dop .


Unfortunally this does not work and I have no clue why. Result:

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Source file ./_DSC4733.ARW.dop does not exist
======== ./_DSC4733.ARW.dop
Setting new values from ./_DSC4733.ARW
'./_DSC4733.ARW.dop' --> './IMG_20170724165107.ARW'
Error: File not found - ./_DSC4733.ARW.dop
======== ./_DSC4734.ARW.dop
Setting new values from ./_DSC4734.ARW
'./_DSC4734.ARW.dop' --> './IMG_20170724165303.ARW'
======== ./_DSC4736.ARW.dop
Setting new values from ./_DSC4736.ARW
'./_DSC4736.ARW.dop' --> './IMG_20170724165453.ARW'
    1 directories scanned
    2 image files updated
    1 files weren't updated due to errors


Please point me to the right direction...

regards,
Michael

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Michael,

What you are doing will work, but you should set -d "IMG_%Y%m%d%H%M%S.%%e.dop" for this command to preserve the .dop extension.

The %e represents the extension of the specified FILE, which in this case is ARW.

After this, you will need to run a second command to rename the ARW files.

- Phil

[mbr]

Hi Phil,

great - works like a charm!

regards,
Michael