Thanks Paul, i have looked into that briefly. I'm thinking along the lines of this, if the beginning Nikon shots are lest say _D720250 and the pentax shots start at say _IGP 9000 to rename those pen tax shots _D720250a, then b then c or -1 -2 -3 etc. Not sure finder can do batch like that but i''l look
Dave On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 9:21 AM Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m not a Mac guy but Google says you can batch rename using the finder. > > https://www.imore.com/how-rename-multiple-files-once-mac#batch > > -p > On Feb 16, 2019, 7:59 AM -0600, David J Brooks <[email protected]>, wrote: > > First off thanks to all that had suggestions on my old macbook > > purchase query. Some valid points made. > > > > Friday oi attended the latest slideshow at our local seniors club, its > > the first one i attended as i wanted to see the process as mine is > > March 15th. The presenter was using her newish macbook and just ran > > her slide show movie direct from iMovie via a projector and she has > > some music. After reading the replies to my query i realized i could > > probably do mine on my iPad mini 2. I keep forgetting i even have it > > as i only use it when the grand-kids are over to play Mario cart. I > > tested out my ipad on the projector and could get the slideshow > > feature to work as well as just moving the photos by hand with a swipe > > right. > > > > So, problem 1 solved. Now problem two. I have two set of Newfoundland > > photos, one from the Nikon and one form the Pentax, both have > > different naming structures and file numbers. I would LOVE to have > > these in some sort of order from both cameras and realize i would have > > to do a lot of renaming, > > Nikons are _D720250 etc > > Pentax are _IGP9000 etc > > > > I'm racking my brain trying to determine the best way to do this. The > > reason for wanting them in orderish is that i took maybe 20 shots of > > an item with Nikon and say 30 with the Pentax with its shorter lens so > > i'd like to have everything flow nice. I used to have renamer for mac > > but it does not work now with OS 10.11.6 > > > > Any ideas appreciated. > > > > Dave > > > > -- > > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > > www.caughtinmotion.com > > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > > > -- > > 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. > -- > 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
