Double names in Pictage

[bslanger]

I'm not sure if anyone on the forum is using Pictage to post files, typically wedding files, to their website or not.  If so, or even not, I have a dilema with re-naming.   To ftp images to Pictage's server, they require 5 folders: 01_Getting ready, 02_Ceremony, 03_Formals, 04_Reception, 05_Details.  Actually they do not require more than one folder, but it helps.   Each folder has to have the files names in a four digit sequence and sequentially.   So inside folder 1, 01_Getting ready, the files would go: 0001 through the end to 0045, or however many files are in that folder.   The next folder would start off where they left off, ie. Folder 2, 02_Ceremony would have: 0046-0124, or however many nunbers are in that folder.  And then so on through folder 5.    

My question is at what point woudl I re-name the files to the Pictage numbering system?  Each wedding has to follow the same numbering sequence, so if I do 50 weddings this year, all 50 weddings would have the same set of numbers, and I would have 50 similar file names for every wedding image in my records.  How can I keep track of the original file name, and still use the Pictage number system.  

I have no idea if this makes any sense.  My girlfriend tells me I am very vauge all the time.....
Thanks for any ideas.

[peterkrogh]

Brian,
I would make catalog sets for each subset (reception, for instance).
I would then select all the images, and have iView create a set of JPEGs for each image in the particular set
I would drop those JPEGs into Folders of the correct name
I would then rename the images in each folder to the Pictage name.
Then upload.

Does this work?
Peter

[bslanger]

Yep, works.