With TC and its Multi-Rename Tool (Ctrl-M) I can change parts of files' filenames. While that method may not be flexible enough for you - getting a good description for each photo or group of, I then use the indispensable tool Total Commander, with the Exif Tool add-on.
Set the 'Import to' folder as above, set Folder name as '(None)' (it's already chosen), and set File name as 'Date Taken + Name' to get the 'himalaya' structure. They're much cheaper than a roll of film and they're a good safety backup. You can auto-delete them upon import but I've decided to keep them all on my cards and save the cards, full. You can specify all photos from your camera's card or choose to import just some at a time, or just new ones. You change it once a month, at the start of each. 2010-05 (C:\Users\Public\Pictures\2010-05), and then specifying that for the import. I use a belt-and-braces method of first choosing a Month folder, e.g. With it you can import photos from a camera and prepend the date each photo was taken*, say Himalayan Mountains 001.jpg and place them in your folders where ever you choose. And the best tool I've found so far to do it with turns out to be one available free: Microsoft's Windows Live Photo Gallery. but in that time I believe I've perfected the time/date-naming of photos taken off my digital cameras. The information in the filename, as Joe just illustrated, is 'more permanent' and accessible than some other attributes. Would Regular Expressions help? Do you have such an expression handy? (Hmmm, the R in BRU is for Rename, isn't it.? But you do address dates with Ctrl-F4, though.) (It's not there in scanned images, for instance.) In my case I could use BRU to use the Taken date again (if I can get it to work: with Ctrl-F4 it just put the dates back to 1Jan1970.) - but other people with other file types couldn't do that. Then I want them returned to the original Taken date whose data lies at the beginning of the name. I'm finding that I'm downloading files from my digital camera with Cam2PC and prepending the Taken date, then adjusting them with a photo editor - that changes the displayed date, the date modified. What do you charge for user-sourced requests, for incorporation into the General Release builds? Well, I'm afraid I support this 'reverse dating' idea, too, Jim. It's easy enough to rename to include the timestamp before converting, but I can't see any way of resetting it afterwards. The reason for this (at the moment - I'm sure there are other needs) is that I have some conversion utilities that do not preserve file timestamps, but I want them preserved. This would need a rule for finding the other file (which would be different for each file in the bulk rename operation) - and this rule need not be the same as the renaming rules. Recording 1.mp3 gets the timestamp of file Recording 1.amr. or to set the timestamp based on another file Obviously this would need some pattern matching to identify the required timestamp to set the timestamp of a file based on characters in the file name I have done some searching but have not found this asked before.
Hello all and first I ought to say: what a great tool!
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