diff --git a/app/attributes/attributecontroller.cpp b/app/attributes/attributecontroller.cpp
index 4a3e7d4fa..ad008c6d2 100644
--- a/app/attributes/attributecontroller.cpp
+++ b/app/attributes/attributecontroller.cpp
@@ -1531,6 +1531,10 @@ void AttributeController::renamePhotos()
           mFeatureLayerPair.featureRef().setAttribute( item->fieldIndex(), newName );
           expressionContext.setFeature( featureLayerPair().featureRef() );
         }
+        else
+        {
+          CoreUtils::log( QStringLiteral( "Photo name format" ), QStringLiteral( "Could not rename file from %1 to %2" ).arg( src ).arg( dst ) );
+        }
       }
     }