calberga
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Posted: April 26 2008,01:07 |
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Sure, iInitially, the file names were:
01-01-01.jpg 01-01-02.jpg etc.
and the list was:
01-01-01 01 01 [red #] 1953-04 New York Skyline, Staten Island Ferry, April 1953 01-01-02 02 02 [red #] 1953-04 Ferries, 4-53 01-01-03 03 11 [red #] 1953-04 Seagate Beach, 4-53 01-01-04 04 12 [red #] 1953-04 Jo, Coney Island, 4-53 01-01-05 05 14 [red #] 1953-04 Parachute Jump, Coney Island, 4-53 01-08-03 06 03 [red #] 1953-04 Ann 1½ yrs, April - 53
I used your suggestion:
<Old name-1[|.jpg]> <New name-1[|.jpg]>
to rename them from the initial names to
01 [red #] 1953-04 New York Skyline, Staten Island Ferry, April 1953.jpg 02 02 [red #] 1953-04 Ferries, 4-53.jpg 03 11 [red #] 1953-04 Seagate Beach, 4-53.jpg 04 12 [red #] 1953-04 Jo, Coney Island, 4-53.jpg 05 14 [red #] 1953-04 Parachute Jump, Coney Island, 4-53.jpg 06 03 [red #] 1953-04 Ann 1½ yrs, April - 53.jpg
I then decided to rework the names and produced the list:
01-01-01 01 1953-04 New York Skyline, Staten Island Ferry 01-01-02 02 1953-04 Ferries 01-01-03 03 1953-04 Seagate Beach 01-01-04 04 1953-04 Jo, Coney Island 01-01-05 05 1953-04 Parachute Jump, Coney Island 01-08-03 06 1953-04 Ann 1½ yrs
I have no easy way to construct a list with both the old and new file names (an old pet peeve -- what do you feed a pet peeve, anyway?) so I tried
<TRASH> <New name-1[|.jpg]>
but no files were shown in the preview. This was true with or without filtering on file extension .jpg.
Now, I have found a program, exiftool, which has allowed me to store the original file name in the "comment" field of the .jpg files, and I could rename the files from there, and use the Old/New pattern, but exiftool is a very Unix-y beast, and requires a command line invocation, and the the files being worked on be in directories with no spaces in their names. This in turn requires me to move the files around, and go through the bother of bringing up a dos-box and typing in the command. I was hoping that I could do it in one fell swoop.
If only I could talk you and the author of IrfanView (plus the author of exiftool) into swapping some code and expanding the range of files that could be manipulated! As it is, I am switching programs over and over. A pain in the ...!
Edited by calberga on April 26 2008,01:08
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