cards containing folders

[elliotjnewman]

I have just used up all my demo ingestions, and I didnt get round to finishing a test...
I have setup my ingestion to retain the name of the folder that the camera creates, ie:

/DIGITAL/
EOS101
EOS102
EOS103

II then ingests these into something like

/Pictures/france/paris/[datemonthyear]/EOS101

The issue I can foresee with this is that when I clear the card and ingest a new set, the camera will make fresh "EOS101" folders which I assume would either end up conflicting with the folders that exist from before, or will become suffixed by the OS...

If I tell II not to retain the original path all the images come into the same folder, thus destroying the folders created in the camera!

Does anybody have a solution?

[peterkrogh]

Elliott,
I ingest into folders named for the Client and Project.  I find that to be a useful way to do it, and can be automated by IIP.
Peter

[Marc Rochkind]

Elliott--

If I understand your question, II will never throw away any files that are already in a folder. You can keep ingesting to the same folder, and the new images will be added.

--Marc

[elliotjnewman]

Peter that's not what I'm after. When you do that it takes all images from the card and puts them into 1 destination folder with client and job name variables. I simply want to keep all the folders the camera creates, ingest them to the destination folder and rename them.

You can set the ingestion to keep the source folders intact but I can't seem to be able to then rename them ie:

EOS101 > 20102009_01
EOS102 > 20102009_02
EOS103 > 20102009_03

do you see what I mean?

[peterkrogh]

Elliott,
My dang Nikons don't work this way, so I don't have files to test on.
It sounds as though you want IIP to preserve the folder structure on the card, and to offer a subfolder renaming scheme on ingestion. Is that right?

Seems like it could be useful, if you have divided the images into folder during shooting to differentiate shoots or situations.

Peter

[elliotjnewman]

Kind of... I want to be able to both retain AND change the name of the source folder, so the macro could potentially be something like:

{@ renameSource -ddmmyyyy}_{@ sequence##}

(Or whatever the correct syntax would be) So instead of the source folders coming in as:

EOS101
EOS102
EOS103

they would be:

06012010_01
06012010_02
06012010_03

Do you see what I mean? Maybe I will put in an official feature request... Just so you know why: I use in-camera folders for my landscape pano work, shooting many frames for an HDR pano image and dumping them all into the same folder can make it hard to differ which belong to which - kind of like your hand technique for use of a better term it's a very nice feature of the canon cameras and I'm surprised its not available on the Nikons.

Elliot