In Lr 3.6 How can I search for filenames ending with a character #?

Text search seems to treat the character # somehow mysterious way not to select files that have it in their name. I can't find any explanation for this in the documentation. Is there some other characters that I have to put next to the # do register as a normal character?

My problem is that I need to find a bunch of files in my catalog whose names ending with a character #. I want to rename these files in a way that removes the end #, but no other characters # separating the key elements of the file names. If I can't do it then I want to select this group of files and to produce for them .xmp files (I don't use normally .xmp files) so that I can rename files outside of the Lr and import them to new complete with all settings and metadata.

I dare say that I wouldn't choose to name the files in this way if I started again but I have too much change now.

There is also too much for me to want to rename them, individually, in the metadata Panel, if I can avoid it.

I use Lr 3.6 Mac OS x 10.6.8

see you soon,

-Alan

Your files names really end by ' # ' (e.g. img123.jpg #) or is it the part without the extension that ends by "#" (e.g. img123 # .jpg).  If the latter, then that this Smart Collection criteria will identify the:

File name contains #.

If the first, then as you have noticed, smart Collections will not work.  But you can use the plugin to any filter, this criterion:

Name of the file ends by #.

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