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Subject: [Leica] Slightly OT: How To Batch Rename Mac Image Files?
From: rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:44:08 +0700
References: <30db39f20911082025i64bf9f4crc6d95ca38861cfc@mail.gmail.com> <DC1C131B-4A23-4607-9462-8EF1AD29F591@gmail.com> <30db39f20911082241v8607c04xe9343cd7fb846184@mail.gmail.com> <110920091848.25521.4AF863E9000DFB88000063B1223045151403010CD2079C080C03BF970A9D9F9A0B9D09@mchsi.com>

Two different Canon 'pocketable' cameras, each producing identically
named files.

==On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:48 AM,  <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
>
> I do not see any problem as the camera sequentially numbers the files and 
> the computer imports with the number given by the camera. ?Not sure why 
> you have the same file numbers every time you down load your photos.
>
>
> Gene -------------- Original message from "Robert D. Baron" <rbaron at 
> concentric.net>: --------------
>
>
>> The problem is that I have to rename them before I move them from the
>> SD card to their folder on the hard drive; otherwise they will
>> overwrite the existing file of the same name.
>>
>> I don't ordinarily import from the SD card into LR.
>>
>> I copy them to a folder on the laptop's hard drive; and to an external
>> hard drive; and then I import them into LR from the laptop's hard
>> drive.
>>
>> --Bob
>>
>> ==On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Leo Wesson ?wrote:
>> > Bob,
>> > Rename them in Lightroom when you import them.
>> >
>> > Leo Wesson
>> > photographer?videographer
>> > leo at leowesson.com
>> > 817?733?9157
>> >
>> > On Nov 8, 2009, at 10:25 PM, "Robert D. Baron"
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Mac newbie here. ?I just discovered - when loading images from SD
>> >> cards to my laptop - that both my new Canon S90 and G11 were assigning
>> >> identical file names (numbers) to image files. ?I can fix this in the
>> >> future, but as to the existing image files, is there a way to batch
>> >> rename them before loading them into Lightroom?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> --Bob
>> >>
>>
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