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Renumbering sequence of filenames?
For reasons best known to itself, my Canon Powershot decided to reset
its filename sequence back to zero, so although my library of photos had incremented up to the filename IMG_1432.JPG, I suddenly find myself with a new set of photos starting back at IMG_0001.JPG again. What a PITA. Now, I've solved the original problem and stopped it restting, but I want to renumber the new files starting from IMG_1433.JPG. Life's too short to do it manually! Any ideas how to do it? (using Windows XP Home). I'm sure there must be a way using old MS-DOS commands in the XP command window - but how? Thanks David |
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Renumbering sequence of filenames?
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:30:45 +0100, Lobster
wrote: For reasons best known to itself, my Canon Powershot decided to reset its filename sequence back to zero, so although my library of photos had incremented up to the filename IMG_1432.JPG, I suddenly find myself with a new set of photos starting back at IMG_0001.JPG again. What a PITA. Now, I've solved the original problem and stopped it restting, but I want to renumber the new files starting from IMG_1433.JPG. Life's too short to do it manually! Any ideas how to do it? (using Windows XP Home). I'm sure there must be a way using old MS-DOS commands in the XP command window - but how? Thanks David Google is your friend. http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/ren...Tools_Tips.htm TR |
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Renumbering sequence of filenames?
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:30:45 +0100, Lobster
wrote: For reasons best known to itself, my Canon Powershot decided to reset its filename sequence back to zero, so although my library of photos had incremented up to the filename IMG_1432.JPG, I suddenly find myself with a new set of photos starting back at IMG_0001.JPG again. What a PITA. Curious as to why this makes a real difference to you? -- john mcwilliams |
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Renumbering sequence of filenames?
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:51:53 -0700, John McWilliams wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:30:45 +0100, Lobster wrote: For reasons best known to itself, my Canon Powershot decided to reset its filename sequence back to zero, so although my library of photos had incremented up to the filename IMG_1432.JPG, I suddenly find myself with a new set of photos starting back at IMG_0001.JPG again. What a PITA. Curious as to why this makes a real difference to you? Murphy's Law. He _will_ , at some point , overwrite an old image with a new image. |
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Allodoxaphobia wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:51:53 -0700, John McWilliams wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:30:45 +0100, Lobster wrote: For reasons best known to itself, my Canon Powershot decided to reset its filename sequence back to zero, so although my library of photos had incremented up to the filename IMG_1432.JPG, I suddenly find myself with a new set of photos starting back at IMG_0001.JPG again. What a PITA. Curious as to why this makes a real difference to you? Murphy's Law. He _will_ , at some point , overwrite an old image with a new image. Exactly! ;-) |
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:21:35 +0100, Lobster wrote:
Allodoxaphobia wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:51:53 -0700, John McWilliams wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:30:45 +0100, Lobster wrote: For reasons best known to itself, my Canon Powershot decided to reset its filename sequence back to zero, so although my library of photos had incremented up to the filename IMG_1432.JPG, I suddenly find myself with a new set of photos starting back at IMG_0001.JPG again. What a PITA. Curious as to why this makes a real difference to you? Murphy's Law. He _will_ , at some point , overwrite an old image with a new image. Exactly! ;-) And, to press home the effect of Murphy's Law, the old image will be Very Important, and the new image will be of his feet. :-) |
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Renumbering sequence of filenames?
Well, why don't you use the template like yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss to rename all
your photos? I found that very convenient. It's pretty easy to get this info from the image itself. I started doing that several years ago and found that pretty convenient. It's extremely useful when you want to reorder the whole collection of photos by date/location/event, etc. I usually keep a separate folder with a silimar name: "YY-MM-DD ventName" and all photos inside are belonging to this event. Just D. Murphy's Law. He _will_ , at some point , overwrite an old image with a new image. Exactly! ;-) |
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Renumbering sequence of filenames?
John McWilliams wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:30:45 +0100, Lobster wrote: For reasons best known to itself, my Canon Powershot decided to reset its filename sequence back to zero, so although my library of photos had incremented up to the filename IMG_1432.JPG, I suddenly find myself with a new set of photos starting back at IMG_0001.JPG again. What a PITA. Curious as to why this makes a real difference to you? When putting together a slide show from different times, you can copy to a new folder without overwriting and they all sort chronologically. -- Paul Furman www.edgehill.net www.baynatives.com all google groups messages filtered due to spam |
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Paul Furman wrote:
John McWilliams wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:30:45 +0100, Lobster wrote: Curious as to why this makes a real difference to you? When putting together a slide show from different times, you can copy to a new folder without overwriting and they all sort chronologically. This is only a problem, if you can only sort by filename. But it's know, that many programs also support sorting by date, whis is in many cases the better approach anyway. With the right tools it's easy to correct date and time in the exif-field of the images and set the filed date to the date in the exif-header. I can't see the problem with the numbering. For me, the file numbering is only an estimate, how many pictures I've already done with this camera... I just have to know how many times it already wrapped around at 9999 to 0000 ;-) bye kruemi -- Dimage A2, Agfa isolette http://flickr.com/photos/kruemi http://profile.imageshack.us/user/kruemi/images |
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Renumbering sequence of filenames?
TRoss wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:30:45 +0100, Lobster wrote: For reasons best known to itself, my Canon Powershot decided to reset its filename sequence back to zero, so although my library of photos had incremented up to the filename IMG_1432.JPG, I suddenly find myself with a new set of photos starting back at IMG_0001.JPG again. What a PITA. Now, I've solved the original problem and stopped it restting, but I want to renumber the new files starting from IMG_1433.JPG. Life's too short to do it manually! Any ideas how to do it? (using Windows XP Home). I'm sure there must be a way using old MS-DOS commands in the XP command window - but how? Google is your friend. http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/ren...Tools_Tips.htm Yeah, did try googling but without success... thanks for the link but that's not really what I need. (ie, the instructions state: "If you typed 'file.jpg', the second file will be named 'file (1).jpg', and so on with increasing numbers.") Although I suppose just as a method of preventing accidental overwriting I could implement it on the batch of several hundred wrongly-numbered pics I have. Bit clunky though, and it means I lose the chronology of file-numbering which is a 'nice-to-have'. David |
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