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  • Project Panel names from file names

    Posted by Mike Foran on April 23, 2024 at 2:49 pm

    I am working on a project with a lot of assets that are being swapped with newer versions. However, in the project panel the assets are retaining their original file names. So, for example, I have updated “file_v01.tif’ with “file_v02.tif” but the project panel still says v01. I have this issue across hundreds of assets. Is there any way to easily fix this, and have it stay fixed?

    Mike Foran replied 2 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Walter Soyka

    April 23, 2024 at 5:19 pm

    That’s strange! The normal Ae behavior is to rename the asset when you do a footage replacement.

    When you’re replacing the asset in the project panel, do you perhaps have “Import as sequence” checked in the file selection dialog box?

  • Mike Foran

    April 23, 2024 at 7:26 pm

    The files in this case are actually SWF files exported from Animate. And given how weird Animate can be, I suspect this might be part of the problem.

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