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Old 11-20-2009, 10:05 AM
PeterP PeterP is offline
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Hi,

one addition, you may find useful. I rename all my photos right after I downloaded them to following format: yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.jpg which is the time of photo was taken.
It's much easier to sort them when you have big bunch of unsorted pictures in this format than in imgxxxxx.jpg format. I've found a very handy free tool for it: jhead, just google for it.
It can read the exif info and rename the file according to that. You save a rename.bat file for example with proper parameters for jhead, and it's just an "Enter" from now on and all photos get renamed in the destination directory.

rename.bat file content for the format I use:
jhead -nf%%Y_%%m_%%d_%%H_%%M_%%S pictures\*.jpg

(jhead can do lot of other things with exif, for example can increase the time in exif with n hours if you forgot to change your camera settings when moved to another timezone, worth to look at it, very useful)

Peter
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