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

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

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

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

A more obvious choice is to reset your camera to use the right numbers.
It seems it can be done with most Canon:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php?t=423664

--
Bertrand

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.

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

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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

There is probably something that could be hacked out using dos commands,
but why? Download (free) IrfanView from http://www.irfanview.net/ then
look at it's "Batch conversion/rename" option under the File menu. The
Batch rename feature allows you to set the rename options to start
renaming at whatever number you want choose.

--

Len

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! ;-)

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

Ofnuts wrote:
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?

A more obvious choice is to reset your camera to use the right numbers.
It seems it can be done with most Canon:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php?t=423664


Yes, thanks, I've already done that having found the same link (where I
said "I've solved the original problem"!) The current query relates to
a fixed batch of photos.

Very odd that it happened in the first place though... I never altered
my camera settings from "continuous" filenames, and the solution was
moderately fiddly to do. Canon bug maybe?

David