When I try to use batch rename (Bridge/CS4) to rename multiple raw files (where I have already input lots of metadata descriptions and keywords), some (but not all) of the renamed files appear to "lose" all of their metadata. After re-creating the metadata by hand several times, I finally realized that Bridge had failed to rename the xml file (and I could just use windows explorer to manually rename the xml file to match the new raw file name), and the metadata would reappear.
This defeats the convenience of batch renaming - has anyone found a way to avoid or prevent this problem? For now, I am just doing all my renaming before putting in data and keywords, but that is not a convenient workflow. Bridge/CS3 did not have this problem.
Thanks for any insight on this.