Looking for file renamer that will. . .

[Guest]

put the date into the name of the photo, preferably in the following format:

yyyymmdd-#

For example:
20040910-3

This would indicate the third photo of September 10, 2004.

After I download pics from my digital camera, I will sometimes modify them
with imaging programs. However, this will change the modified file date,
making it difficult later to manage them, as I tend to make multiple copies
under different folders for different purposes.

Suggestions anyone?

 

[Antoine]

put the date into the name of the photo, preferably in the
following format:

yyyymmdd-#

For example:
20040910-3

This would indicate the third photo of September 10, 2004.

After I download pics from my digital camera, I will sometimes
modify them with imaging programs. However, this will change the
modified file date, making it difficult later to manage them, as I
tend to make multiple copies under different folders for different
purposes.

Suggestions anyone?

IrfanView will do that (batch rename operation).
http://www.irfanview.com

 

[Thorkild Dalsgaard]

put the date into the name of the photo, preferably in the following
format:

yyyymmdd-#

For example:
20040910-3

This would indicate the third photo of September 10, 2004.

After I download pics from my digital camera, I will sometimes modify
them with imaging programs. However, this will change the modified
file date, making it difficult later to manage them, as I tend to
make multiple copies under different folders for different purposes.

I you use a modern photoeditor, the EXIF information burried in the .jpg
picture files will still hold the original date time info for when the
picture was taken -
assuming that your digital camera supplies these informations.

Use e.g. Siren - file renaming tool
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/siren.html
to rename files with date time info added to original filename.

Use e.g. IrfanView with all plugins to view Exif information in your photos
http://www.irfanview.com/
Menu
'Image'
'Information'
'EXIF info*'

Regards
Thorkild Dalsgaard

 

[Susan Bugher]

put the date into the name of the photo, preferably in the following format:

yyyymmdd-#

For example:
20040910-3

This would indicate the third photo of September 10, 2004.

After I download pics from my digital camera, I will sometimes modify them
with imaging programs. However, this will change the modified file date,
making it difficult later to manage them, as I tend to make multiple copies
under different folders for different purposes.

I use this app to download and rename the image files by date (Canon
cameras only):

Program: Cam4you
Author: Hans-David Alkenius
Ware: Donationware
http://jpegclub.org/cam4you/

The main purpose of Cam4you utilities is to make it easy to transfer
pictures from the camera to the computer. The twain interface and the
supplied software with the camera have a lot of functions, but I miss an
easy way to transfer pictures to a certain directory on the computer. I
also wanted to make a small application that you could bring with you
when you visit a cyber café. Cam4you also supports taking picture remote
from the PC.

another possibility - the lasr freeware version of SetNameToTime:

Program: SetNameToTime (v 2.1)
Author: (Åke Storck)
W: LFW
Ware: v 2.1 (now $ware) (203 KB)
http://www.slunecnice.cz/product/SetNameToTime/

from the $ware page:
http://storcksoftware.com/setnametotime/

<q>
Almost all jpg and tiff files produced by modern digital cameras contain
information like the date and time the picture was shot, if a flash was
used, the shutter speed, the f-stop and a lot of other information.
SetNameToTime can extract this information and use it to rename the file.
</q>

Susan

 

[Guest]

Can you give me a quick lesson in how to do this?

I open the Batch Rename dialogue box and enter $E306 (Date:Time tag) in the
relevant dialoge box. However, the output is $E306-1.jpg, $E306-2.jpg, etc.

So what am I doing wrong?

Mike

 

[Antoine]

Can you give me a quick lesson in how to do this?

I open the Batch Rename dialogue box and enter $E306 (Date:Time
tag) in the relevant dialoge box. However, the output is
$E306-1.jpg, $E306-2.jpg, etc.

So what am I doing wrong?

1/ Be sure you use IrfanView v3.92 and the Exif plugin v3.92
You can check installed plugins through'Help' > 'Installed plugins'

2/ Be sure you work on _jpg_ files containing _indeed_ some EXIF
information. When viewing an jpg image in Irfanview, you can see
whether this image contains EXIF information through 'Image' >
'Information'. If there's an EXIF button at the lower left corner of
this window, click it and check whether among all EXIF informations
you really have some date/time datas.

3/ Once 1/ and 2/ are done, you can batch-rename your files as you
described.

Rk : if the pictures files have the same date as the pictures
themselves, you don't need this at all. Just base your batch-rename
operations on the _files_ date/time datas.

 

[Duddits]

put the date into the name of the photo, preferably in the following format:

yyyymmdd-#

For example:
20040910-3

This would indicate the third photo of September 10, 2004.

After I download pics from my digital camera, I will sometimes modify them
with imaging programs. However, this will change the modified file date,
making it difficult later to manage them, as I tend to make multiple copies
under different folders for different purposes.

Suggestions anyone?

Cammy
http://www.bernd-bock.de/Cammy/

regards

Dud