tbourner Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 This question was just asked of me: A few months ago I had to number 50 odd pictures.( i.e. convert from PICT0021.JPG --> 22.02.2008-21.JPG) I like to keep the date before the picture number. Anyway I kinda pressed some wrong buttons and the machine did it Harry Potter magic style on his own and numbered all pictures with the correct date and number. Now I have been trying to recreate this and failed miserably. This morning I took 72 pictures and could really do with this magic trick again. My question is, does anybody know how to do this? PLEASE? I am really fed up with cut & paste. Thank you And I don't know, didn't know you could, anyone know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Irfanview is good for doing this http://www.irfanview.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamc Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 surely a dos script of would work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 Is there nothing in Windows that does it? This sounds like someone did it without realising, so it's highly unlikly they wrote a DOS script to do it then forgot!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt H Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 so it's highly unlikly they wrote a DOS script to do it then forgot!! imagine tho!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Use irfanview like I said, it has batch operations and it is a free product... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 This was the answer: if you open up your photos in explorer, you can view them as thumbnails. if you select all the ones of a particular date and then, whilst highlighted, right click your mouse and select Rename. you can then rename to your desired name - ensure you keep the .jpg on the end, else it wont like it! This will name all the pics for you but will also individually number them 1-50 etc.. Posted by someone with a dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukeyboy2k Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 This question was just asked of me: And I don't know, didn't know you could, anyone know? Can't you just use the command prompt? Something along the lines of: "rename PICT00**.JPG 22.02.2008-**.JPG" (although I'm not sure how it would like all the full stops, so I'd substitute these for underscores) "rename PICT00**.JPG 22_02_2008-**.JPG" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamc Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Can't you just use the command prompt? Something along the lines of: "rename PICT00**.JPG 22.02.2008-**.JPG" (although I'm not sure how it would like all the full stops, so I'd substitute these for underscores) "rename PICT00**.JPG 22_02_2008-**.JPG" DOS must be showing my age Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 I remember my first ever batch file I created, called 'do not run' I think, when run would rename and create a new autoexec.bat, so nothing happened until they reboot and then it just scrolls 'I warned you not to run it' on the screen continuously. I thought it was funny, the line manager didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickTT Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Not sure if this is what you mean, but on win XP, open windows explorer, select all the pictures you want to rename (press & hold CTRL then left click all the images), then right click. Click on rename on the dropdown. change >pic123456newname(1)newname(1)newname(2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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