John, as you work through your sorting/naming process, one thing that I have found to be helpful: In Lightroom Classic, you can start the Search process, then at the top choose Metadata, within metadata choose Camera. Select *ist-D or whatever, and then you can sort by date, and scroll through looking for gaps or anamolies in naming or numbering. Then repeat the process after selecting a different camera to work with. Stan Sent from my iPad
> On Feb 23, 2024, at 12:03 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > >> On 2/22/2024 4:55 PM, Bob W PDML wrote: >> If you put the cards back in the camera can you still see all the photos in >> preview? > > Yes. The photos were all still there on the card when I looked at the little > TV screen on the back. > > I finally did manage to copy them all (except for one that was corrupted) > over to the computer ... by various means. > > I figured out it was pulling down approximately 8 images before the error > would occur, so I went over to Windows where I could pull up the DCIM folder > & view the sub-folders. > > I made a DCIM "copy" folder on my desktop and then copied the sub-folders one > at a time. When it would error out, I'd remove the card reader from the USB > and reinsert it. > > I could see which files had copied before the error, so I'd take the next 8 > files & copy them ... then the NEXT 8 until I got an error ... > > At which point repeat removing & reinserting the card reader and carry on ... > > Once I had all the photos (verified I can see & open them from Bridge) I have > since reformatted the cards. > >> Can you use the camera as the card reader? That is, connect the camera to >> the computer and download from there. > > I don't have the necessary equipment to do it that way so I don't know. > >> Can you download to a non-Windows device, such as a phone? > > Ditto ... > > EXCEPT I did the process I outline above on a different Windoze computer (my > game & goofing off computer) and then copied the images over to my file > server and then pulled them from the file server to the Photoshop Computer. > > Since then I've been going through ALL of my photos on the Photoshop Computer > & verifying them. > > It's been 20 years plus 1 week since I got my *ist-D. The *ist-D, K10D & K20D > have all rolled over past 9999 at least once. > > I'm up to 2016 so far. The only thing I've run into is there are periods when > I didn't rename the photos upon uploading ... IMGPnnnn to istD-0nnnn; > IMGPnnnn to istD-1nnnn and so on for the K10D, K20D, K-3 & K-1 (the K-1 got > the numbers reset when I had to send it in for repair, so it's already at > "K-1_1nnnn" even though it hadn't rolled over). > > And I've found duplicate folders where one will have the images IMGP1234 and > the other will have Kxx-01234. Takes me a while to compare the folders and > make sure there are no images I haven't duplicated in renamed images folder. > > I keep ALL of my images - good, bad & ugly - because having gaps in the > numbering confuses me and I worry I've lost images somewhere, but once I have > verified that I have all the images in both folders I will delete the folder > that doesn't have the images renamed. > > Anyway, I've got less than 10 years worth of images still left to verify ... > so back to work. > > > -- > Vivere in aeternum aut mori conatur > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. > www.avg.com > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
