Camera Mixing Up File Names or File Order.

Today I took pictures at 4 different locations.
I just came home to see that a few file names have been mixed up.
when looking at the photos in bridge the different locations are mixed up
but the file names are in order.
as if I left one location to take pictures someplace else and then came back
again...
in 5 years this has never happened before.
I did view a few pictures in the LCD between locations but that would only
matter if the file names are not given
until the pictures are downloaded to my computer.

Tom

 

Please describe the error more correctly.
Sort your images by time taken, instead by ISO or aperture.

-Wolfgang

 

My Nikon names the files differently whether it's in raw or jpeg or raw
plus jpeg, placing the underscore in a different position.

 

Paul:
That's interesting. With mine (D2 series) the file name configuration
(position of the underscore) depends on the Color Space chosen, not whether
I'm shooting raw or jpeg or any combination thereof.
Bob

 

I find that happens once in a while if I delete pictures. A I have
exposures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and then delete 3 & 5. Then take 8, 9
10. It's okay on the camera but when I move to the computer it goes
1,2,8,4,9,5,6,7,10 I have no idea why, but it does it. So I just
don't delete anything when I'm taking pics.

In XP, to correct it. Sort by date. Then start a new directory and
move in the first photos. Highlight them all, right click and hit
rename. Type in a new name on the first file and it will rename them
all of newname01, newname02, newname03 etc. Then bring in the next
batch and repeat the same process using the SAME new name. It will
then continue with newname04, newname05, etc. Keep going until done.
Then they will be in time-order.

Good luck with it.

 

Yes, I think I was mistaken. Switching raw etc I think puts them in
different folders only. D200

 

Paul:
Switching file types does not, in mine, create new folders. All files
recorded will go into the same folder (that which was specified originally).
One can specify different folders, but you must create, then choose them
specifically. The only exception to this, that I am aware of is when "total
number of files" limits are exceeded and then the folder increments
numerically to the next automatically.
Bob

 

I found this happened when using the standard XP Photo Wizard. It also
changes the modified date to the download time. If you use Explorer to
move the files off the camera, this isn't an issue.

You can add 'Date Photo Taken' to the 'Details' shown in Explorer, and
sort by that before doing the rename as above - saves doing it in
batches.

--
Errol Cavit
"[I warn against] the almost...universal error of historians to
suppose it politically, as it physically true, that every effect has a
proportionate cause."
Dr Samuel Johnston, 1771

 

How did you dl them? Can you eliminate any issues associated with you dl
method?

 

The pictures are not being numbered in the order that they are taken.

I will check to see if some how the sorting order has suddenly changed.

Thank you

Tom

 

That's really odd if they aren't being numbered in the order they
were shot. Are you transferring the pictures using a simple file
browser (i.e., Windows Explorer) or with some photo software that
may be renaming/renumbering them for you? My DSLR creates in its
EXIF data a "Total pictures" field. Does yours have anything like
this? If so, it should show numbers increasing in sync with the
order in which you took the pictures. Also, is this strange
numbering reflected by the picture's actual filenames, or is it just
what is being displayed by some software or by the OS?

 

All I did was take the card out of the camera and stick it in my computer
and viewed
them in bridge.



My DSLR creates in its

the pictures usually do get named (img_7440) in the order they are taken.
today was a busy day. Tomorrow I will check to see if some how the
peferences have changed.
today I edited the pics, made presentations for 4 apartments and built a
simple database.

Tom

 

I did review the pics between locations but didnt delete anything.

they are now in a database.
I only save a few because I am still messing around with
metering and exposure settings with out
moving the camera just to see and learn more.


Highlight them all, right click and hit

hey thanks for that tip. i never knew I could rename groups of photos like
that.
i just sorted them by date created in Bridge. the apartments now group
together but
the file names are not in order. for example I have it set to name the
pictures img_6400 the next picture is img_6425.
I usually add a number to the front to match the Primary key in the
database.
I will find out tomorrow if some how the preferences have changed.

 

I don't know if I was right to say that I downloaded them if all i did was
take the card out of the camera
and stick it in the computer.

tom

 

And, if you don't mind, what on earth is this "brigde" you keep talking
about?

jue

 

it's part of adobe creative suite:

<http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/bridge/>