Adam, You're a couple of thousand exposures ahead of me, but I've run into the same problem re: file naming. My solution was to start renaming the images when uploading them to the PC. I think that's the common way to solve it. There are many tools that allow you to rename files in batch. Irfanview is a nice one. Some of the raw converters can do it for you too, as well as image archiving software like ThumbsPlus, BreezeBrowser and PhotoStation.
Can't help you with freeware to change the metadata, I'm afraid. Have you considered using a database-based tool for the management job? Jostein On 9/27/06, Adam McKenty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you rename/organize your digital photos? > I'm now at image 17,603 and am having a bit of a crisis with my sorting > regime because I can't add my last 7603 images to my file system. Until > now I've just been sorting my photos into a bunch of folders (people, > deer, sail boats, etc.), and copying the best ones in to a best ones > folder, with windows explorer. What I'd like to be doing is putting them > all in one big folder and having them organized by their meta data > keywords, which I could apply in bulk to an entire folder or drag on to > an individual image without having to type them out seventeen thousand > times. Is there any good freeware out there that can do this sort of > thing? Most of my photos are jpgs but the last thousand or so are raws > and I don't plan to be shooting to many more jpgs. > > Cheers, > Francis > > www.photosynth.ca/photo (under construction) > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
