From: steve harley
On 2011-03-02 01:23 , John Sessoms wrote:
> Because I also have duplicate file names. I have different files on
> different drives that have the same names, but they're not the same image.
a simple solution to avoiding name conflicts is not to rename anything,
but to store files in folders YYYY/MM/DD (YYYY\MM\DD in DOS-speak);
LightRoom or Aperture can do this for you automatically; that would
probably also ease any manual inspection of images for particular dates
that you want to do
I'm actually storing them in folders "YYYYMMDD-N_unique-name", so that
different jobs on the same day can be separated.
When the "-N" is needed, it insures that the first job of any day, -1,
is the first folder, the second job is the second folder, ... it's not
needed if I only did one job on that day.
The "unique-name" for the folder is my reminder for "WTF was I doing?"
on each job.
Inside the folders the files are in the sequence I took them.
Because I have 4 cameras and occasionally will use more than one on a
job, I'm renaming the files as "istD-nnnnn.???", "K10D-nnnnn.???" ...
K20D, so I can tell at a glance which of the four cameras I used to take
the image.
The 5 digit sequence numbers are because the *ist-D has wrapped past
9999 twice, and the K10D has gone around once already.
The K20D hasn't wrapped yet, and I have no idea whatsoever what the real
numbers are for my last ditch, "If a 747 lands on the freeway, I've
always got at least one camera with me" backup A60 are.
Bridge will do the folders manually if not automatically, and at the
same time I'm using it to manually inspect problematic images. That's
how I first found out that some files on different drives with the same
names were not the same images.
It was when I started organizing my folders so the computer would sort
them in date order that I discovered I hadn't set the dates properly in
the camera.
I'm slowly getting it straightened out; even overcoming the date
discrepancies.
Right now, I'm just bugged about what caused the discrepancy to be
inconsistent.
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