On Aug 23, 2005, at 8:52 AM, Brian McEwen wrote:
On Aug 22, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Claire Hart wrote:
Hi. Thanks for your reply. I'm wondering if you are new to the
list. We had some discussion on this last week and week before.
If someone would have suggested it, I probably would have. I did
mention my problem with duplicate numbers on many of the photos.
I did mention that I needed to rename photos and someone mentioned
that it could be done with another application that I don't have,
but not with iPhoto.
Sorry for the delay in answering, Claire. I was away for about a
week and just getting caught up on my e-mail. I didn't see your
query before.
Is pha referring to a 3rd party plug-in or script?
No, I'm talking about the built-in "Batch Change" capability (found
under the "Photos" menu item in iPhoto).
Looking in help for "rename", nothing useful shows up; the only
mention of "batch" in the iPhoto help, says:
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If you want multiple photos to have the same title, date, or
comments, you can edit them all at once.
WARNING: Setting a photo's title, date, or comments changes it in
the photo library and in all albums and books where it appear
Yes, the help is rather sparse on that feature.
that would be counterproductive here.
How so?
I looked a bit for a applescript to do unique numbering within
iPhoto, but failed to find one, so that's why I suggested a method
outside of iPhoto.
Here's how you do it:
1) Select all the photos that you want to rename within iPhoto
2) Select "Batch Change" from the "Photos" menu
3) In the resulting dialog box, choose Set "Title" to "Text" and
enter the common text for each (e.g. Basketball)
4) Select "Append a number to each photo." This is what suffixes the
unique, sequential numbering.
5) Then, to export, just select "Share" -> "Export" with the
selection "Use title" for the filename. Also ensure that "Use
extension" is selected so that Windows users won't have any problems
opening.
Since every filename is now unique (i.e., with the sequential
numbering), there will be no duplicate filename errors.
HTH.
-pha
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