Adding numbers to filename

[ryan]

First off, let me just say that ImageIngester is awesome. Great program.

That said, I'm looking for some help. My two main cameras, both Canons, take pictures with a 4-digit filename. This is fine, as I then store them away as DRB_YYMMDD_0001.dng.

However, my phone, an HTC Touch Pro, takes pictures with a 3-digit filename, like IMAGE_001.jpg.  Since I can't find any tweak to make it a 4-digit filename, I'm hoping imageingester will let me add a leading 0 to the filename.

I know I could just add a 0 into the filename macro, but I only want this to be done when I ingest photos from my phone and not the Canons (that would give me 5 0s.  There's probably some way to do this in Multi-camera, but I haven't played with it that much.  Can someone dumb it down for me to understand?

Thanks,
Ryan

[peterkrogh]

Ryan,
Make a naming preset for the phone (and then make a master preset that includes that naming preset).

I have a master for the Panasonic LX2, for instance, that omits JPEG files, since the camera always shoots JPEGs in addition to movies and raw.

Peter

[Marc Rochkind]

Ryan--

I agree with Peter. ;-)

--Marc

[ryan]

Thanks, I have it working.

Just noticed another small hitch, however.

I copy my photos to my desktop from the SD Card/Camera. Then I run ImageIngester, back them up to a hard drive (primary) then again to my working folder. I notice that ImageIngester is adding an "a' onto the end of my folders which are set up to be filename numbers.

So if I have photos 1123-1245, that would be the name of the folder.
However, ImageIngester is giving me "0000-0000a"  so it doesn't recognize the filename numbers and it adds an "a".  I've looked through the settings and I can't seem to find it, but here are my settings.







This is using version 3.3.0.2. Any ideas on what's causing this? I didn't have this problem with the older 3.2 versions.

EDIT: Just tested with 3.3.0.3 - I get the same result. I'm guessing it's something in my format that I'm overlooking.

Thanks,
Ryan

[peterkrogh]

Ryan,
Is there any chance something else is in that folder?  I generally have only seen that when I'm working on a folder that has something else in it, like bridge cache files or something.
Can you try it on a fresh card with a  handful of files, or can you check the folder for invisible or other files?
Peter