My thanks to all who helped with suggestions for software for renaming files on transfer - very much appreciated and I'll check out all the ideas.
In fact, I just tried out PS CS using batch rename in file browser - with thanks for that idea. It might sound obvious that I should have known about that, but I didn't (!). The reason is linked with another thread running at the moment, on memory allocation for CS. In my case, CS has never run well. I spent days (weeks) doing little work, just trying to get CS to run the way that PS7 used to. No crashes, just treacle slow or refusal to run plug-ins that are lightning fast in PS7. Adobe tech help offered me the same suggestions several times, I ran in circles, then we both gave up on each other. (To be fair, someone else from Adobe picked up on my woes from an early posting on this list, but to my chagrine I never went further as I was so tired with the problem ...). I have CS running of sorts now, though file browser is still very slow and thus I hadn't picked up the batch rename part of it. I guess I'll have to reconfigure things again. But, in case this helps anyone, I have the following settings (some from suggestions by Adobe tech, some that I have arrived at myself) that have enabled most of my plug-ins to work - some commands are still slow, but the program does operate. Adobe is obviously aware of the problem with memory and speed, but still - I'm with anyone who thinks things should run better than they do, at least as well as PS7. History states 10 (to reduce memory filling up; sometimes on big files I reduce this further, though there is 2Gb of RAM on the machine) Dedicates SCSI scratch disk, no partitions. Only 60% RAM available to PS (higher amounts slowed things down, which I don't understand at all) Cache level 2 (down from the more usual 4 - at Adobe's suggestion; this more than anything helped CS to run anything like properly). Thanks again for suggestions and help in file transfers, people :-) Chris Howes =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
