On Nov 28, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > I also copy files into the directories named as "YYYYMMDD-event". > The problem here is that it all occured more or less within the > same event.
Not much you can do when that happens other than rename the files themselves as needed. > I don't like renaming files as a routine process, as depending on the > situation, they may be transferred and developed onto two different > computers via a few different ways (directly from the SD card or > stored to the HyperDrive first). I import/rename when necessary onto one computer. If the files are needed on another one, I copy them from the first computer to the second, not from the card to the second, unless I have the exact same rename algorithm set up on both (happens that I do :-). > Overall, I am surprised why the manufacturers of digital cameras have > reserved only 9999 unique file names for their cameras (even > though I understand their desire to stay with 8+3 naming scheme). > I wish they would allow the first 3 letters to be user-configured, > and then use 5 digits for serial file numbers. > This way people with more than one camera from the same manufacturer > wouldn't have problems with the file name collisions. It doesn't really matter much. It is exceedingly rare that you would run into a filename collision with a rename to YYYYMMDDhhmmss.<extension> format where that date string is the capture timestamp, and then most of the transfer/import tools I have used will append a '-N" to file names that do collide rather than overwriting an existing file. When I was running two DS bodies, I had the transfer/import tool replace IMGP with DSb1 and DSb2 for initial downloading. I just had to remember which one I was downloading from and switch the setting. Now that got tricky if I used a shared card wallet. The Epson P2000 takes a different tack on this to prevent filename collisions. Each time you download, it looks at the date and will create a day folder timestamped YYYYMMDD if it doesn't already exist. Then, inside that, it creates YYYYMMDD-NN for each individual download set. So if you're downloading four or five separate cards from a day's shooting, regardless of whether they're the same camera or not, you'll get YYYYMMDD YYYYMMDD-01 YYYYMMDD-02 YYYYMMDD-03 YYYYMMDD-04 YYYYMMDD-nn etc. After that, it's up to me to use the transfer/import tool of choice to recurse through the storage unit's directory trees, set the file names as desired, and sort them into the day's shoots appropriately. Fun stuff, eh? DAM DAM DAM ... ]'-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
