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File Renaming-PC
Joshua Brown, Photographer
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Waynesville | NC | USA | Posted: 10:02 PM on 11.04.09 |
| ->> I can't figure out what is going on. I have a PC running Windows Vista (Yes, I know, buy a Mac...moving on) and I have a folder containing files from several cameras. I arrange them in the order I want them, uncheck View>Auto Arrange, select all using CTRL + A and click on the first photo and select Rename. When the computer finishes renaming them, the order of the photos is completely crazy. Some of the files revert to where they were, some stay in place and some jump around to random points. Does anyone know a step I am missing that will overwrite Vista's desire to re-arrange my images? Thanks in advance. |
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Jeff Hinds, Photographer
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Portland | OR | USA | Posted: 10:36 PM on 11.04.09 |
->> I feel your pain. I have had the same issues in the past and gave up. I wanted each image to fall in order by the time taken but it never worked..mostly due to the fact that the camera was never to the second with recording the time data? I know there are re-naming programs out there but I havent used any of them. Sorry, I'm not much help with the issue at hand but for me I just threw up the white flag and now just re name the files per each different camera. Depending on which files I want viewed first, I'll re name the important ones starting with an earlier number....ie: 1001 vs 2001, etc...hope that makes sense? Good luck!
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Harrison Shull, Photographer
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Scott Morgan, Photographer
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Rockford | IL | United States | Posted: 10:52 PM on 11.04.09 |
| ->> If you have PhotoMechanic it works perfectly every time |
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Scott Morgan, Photographer
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Rockford | IL | United States | Posted: 10:53 PM on 11.04.09 |
| ->> oops, by it I mean renaming |
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Geoffrey Bolte, Photographer, Assistant
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Spencer/Worcester | MA | USA | Posted: 10:58 PM on 11.04.09 |
| ->> Why not try it in PM or Adobe Bridge? If you have Lightroom that can do it too! |
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Joshua Brown, Photographer
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Waynesville | NC | USA | Posted: 11:03 PM on 11.04.09 |
| ->> I don't have PM, but I do have Bridge and Lightroom. I've not played with Bridge and us LR for all of my Raw editing, but nothing more. I guess I need to learn a little more about these programs and how I can make them work for me. Thanks all. |
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Bob Ford, Photographer
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Lehighton | Pa | USA | Posted: 11:26 PM on 11.04.09 |
->> Doing it in Bridge is easy.
Select all of you images and select View> Sort> By date file created
Then with them still selected go to Tools> Batch rename
Select you prefix and the number you'd like to start with and press rename. |
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Curtis Clegg, Photographer
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Sycamore | IL | USA | Posted: 11:32 PM on 11.04.09 |
->> I'm a big fan of Lupas Rename for Windows:
http://rename.lupasfreeware.org/lupasrename.php
It's pretty powerful but I'm not sure if it will do everything you want... I only use the "replace text" function and it works like a charm every time (it lets me retain the original four-digit file name intact). The price can't be beat either. |
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Juerg Schreiter, Photographer
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Greg Francis, Photographer
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Rochester | NY | USA | Posted: 10:32 AM on 11.05.09 |
| ->> AF5 works great, lots of flexibility in file naming. |
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Joshua Brown, Photographer
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Waynesville | NC | USA | Posted: 10:44 PM on 11.05.09 |
| ->> The AF5 worked like a champ. Simple and renamed flawlessly. Thanks again everybody for all of your tips. |
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