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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 20 for Windows => Topic started by: pgrisham on March 21, 2015, 10:35:35 am
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I just realized that my camera is resetting filenames every day, so now I have dozens of img_001, img_002, etc. I was looking for a solution online and realized MC could probably do this now!
What I need is a method that would let me rename my images with the date taken tag (including time, I guess, to make each unique) plus the camera model number. That way I could be greedy and just institute a permanent naming system that would account for different cameras as well. ;D I know I can sort by any tag within MC, but I use Windows explorer for certain things, and it would solve my problem of files with the same name.
I feel like this would not be too hard, once I thought about what MC is capable of. Any takers?
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A simple way is to use the Rename, Move & Copy Files Tool. Set as Filename Rule: formatdate(%Y-%d-%m-%H-%M-%S)-[Camera]. Choose the delimiters to your preferences.
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Wow. That was unbelievably easy. Kudos to you (and JRiver, of course!). In all of 5 minutes I renamed 8 years of digital camera pics and fixed my naming woes. (And I backed them up before I started, just in case I really messed things up. ;)
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(And I backed them up before I started, just in case I really messed things up. ;)
good on ya' ! :) Lots of people forget to do this on major retags. Always run a manual library backup and always have a physical backup (at least one) to be sure. If ctrl+z isn't enough, the restore library command takes seconds. The automatic library backup could be every two days or so