In a city there will be a 250 high street, a 250 2nd Ave, for instance. File naming after counter reset most certainly do not have all different numbers.You'll just continue adding an extra step to your workflow and everyone else that doesn't want to just has no other choice than go along for the ride. I guess that's one of the reasons it just doesn't get changed. I'm surprised how many of you actually "defend" the current numbering system. Why do motor vehicles don't just have 4 digits on the odometer then? Simple, 9999 Km/miles is no where near enough for the lifetime of for example a car and it sure isn't enough for a camera either.
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If the series would change with time, there would be no need to rename files unless that's what you really want to. Just like GM mentioned, one day you might come home with over 9999 photos and you'll end up with duplicate file names,Īll the "solutions" to this problem that everyone has mentioned so far are only in practise because of the limitation the numbering system presents from the beginning. I'm not sure why you're focusing on my example, which obviously is an example and as such, doesn't represent the entirety of what the issue is. One caveat is just don’t change the file extension. I may start doing this on every job now as it totally identifies the photo shoot itself for years to come. Now that’s 15000 images so it makes it very easy with sorting and such.
I think I shoot 10 diffrent events so all the names are diffrent so when all the Raws go on my back up drive they are all in order. Now I’ll import those and now I have all new file names for that one event. Than batch rename it and I will wind up with a file name like LA19Jeans0001 till the end like LAJeans2345 or whatever. Example I just did Los Angeles so I set it up for LA19 than the name of that event Jeans let’s say than I will in sequence go from 0001. Than I actually rename all the Raws for that certain event. What I do is in Abobe Bridge is put card in computer than find my way to the DCIM folder on the card than select all.
There's 3 letters and 4 number for each file, which comes down to a loooooot of files in total. And let us also decide on which serie and file number we want to start with, useful for when upgrading a body. Once it reaches 9999 on a serie, just change to the next serie. File naming after counter reset several solution to this problem but the one and only solution we all need is for Sony to simply change the way it numbers the files.File naming after counter reset rename files, as i import into c1, to yymmdd_.May be I did a useless and unnecessary thing but still I felt uneasy seeing the file duplicates in the Finder. I made a mistake and forgot to put a few dozen shots into the NameChanger batch queue, so had to do it all again after recovering my C1 session from a backup just because of my OCD to get all shots in a perfect counter order by date. Voila, all edits retained, all files have a unique name and no doubling occurs. Library looked the same, but it took hours for generating previews etc.ĥ. Open C1 again and let it populate the libraries with the renamed. Renaming takes 1 sec and the thousands of EIPs have a continuous counter name, but no file extension (it gets lost in renaming).ģ. Made sure the eip files are sorted by exif date and time in the batch list.
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I used NameChanger for Mac for renaming in a sequence count. This pulls the edits together with the raw file into one package.
Pack all existing ARWs in all sessions in the whole C1 folder as. Decided to rename all 9999 files in my sessions into a 6-digit cont counter fashion.