locked out of Bridge metadata

[billirwin]

I have just upgraded to CS2/Win XP Pro.  I set up Bridge (1.03) with Peter's recommended preferences.  I started on my trial folder to rename files - I got the dialog ok, all looked sweet but when I hit enter it hung for ages, and finally quit after renaming only a handfull of files.  I tried again, and while it acted like it was going to rename nothing hapened.

I then tried adding a few keywords and editing descriptions of some files.  No matter how I approach it (via the inspector panels / template) it thinks for a while and then tells me it failed to make changes because the file was being used by another process.

I purged the caches, trashed the preferences, and am still getting no where.  My files are cr2 from a Canon 5D. 

I would much appreciate any pointers on the next move - maybe a complete uninstall / reinstall?

thanks

Bill

[billirwin]

ok I found that if I process it to a .dng them I'm free to edit it.  Do I have the procedure wrong?  I thought I should be able to rename files / add metadata while it is still a RAW file?

Bill

[peterkrogh]

Bill,
Any change the disk or the files are locked?  I don't know how you check on Windows, but someone here does.
Peter

[billirwin]

Hi, after a bit of frustration I have it sorted.  I had a couple of files in there that had already been renamed with a yymmdd prefix.  Bridge was trying to assign them the same names based on the parameters I set up. So I guess it locked up when it was trying to save multiple files with the same names.

I restored one of my backups, deleted the offending files, and all went according to plan. Chalk up this afternoon as another learning experience!

Bill

[peterkrogh]

This is one reason that renaming should happen at the earliest possible moment.  It's likely to get messy otherwise.
Peter