[JanJaap]

I've just tried downloader pro (again i might add)...i did so aswel about 8 months ago. Now i could be missing someting very obvious(i hope i am) but when i rename NEF files which already have a xmp sidecar file the xmp file seems to be ignored and only the NEF gets renamed. I think this is why i didn't buy an earlier version of DL pro...and now with 1.81 it still doesn't seem to be able to do this...

[Chris Breeze]

Downloader Pro is designed for downloading images from digital cameras and isn't designed to handle XMP files. The batch renaming functions in BreezeBrowser Pro will rename XMP sidecar files when renaming a raw file. BreezeBrowser Pro also renames sidecar files from Raw Shooter Essentials/Premium and from Bibble Pro.

[martinlooker]

Chris this is something I too would like to see.

I realise that downloader is primarily intended for downloading brand new images from cameras. But it also would make a fantastic image organising application, allowing images to be reorganised from the hard disk space. There are however 2 things that prevent me from using Downloader in this way:

1. No recognition of BreezeBrowser's ranking or tagging. I know I've asked for this before and received the standard answer above but these are both your products under your control, providing support for this should strengthen both products and allow them to interoperate.

2. Support for buddy files in downloader in the same way as renaming in BreezeBrowser. Yes files can be renamed in BreezeBrowser with support for buddy files, but files cannot be reorganised into folders in BreezeBroswer.

These limitations basically mean you only get one change to organise your image folders, at the time you download. Once you have ranked, tagged, used RawShooter or added XMP to your images it is next to impossible to reorganise and preserve that work. If Downloader provided the support above, even if needing an extra option because of extra processing time, such re-organisation would be simple.