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shonu

Member

Registered: 2006-08-05

Posts: 9

Renamer: Inverted Serialize

Hi

My Canon camera (analog!) is putting pictures in reverse order as it winds it up first and then starts taking pictures.
As a result, all images on a CD coming from developer is in reverse order.
Files show like this

003_01.jpg
004_02.jpg
005_03.jpg
006_04.jpg
007_05.jpg
008_06.jpg
009_07.jpg

I want this:
07-003_01.jpg
06-004_02.jpg
05-005_03.jpg
04-006_04.jpg
03-007_05.jpg
02-008_06.jpg
01-009_07.jpg

Perhaps I have not found the way yet to do this more sophistically, but I guess a small checkbox ("inverse") in the serialize diologue would be helpful

Thanks!

Shonu

dloneranger

Senior Member

From: Birmingham, UK

Registered: 2006-05-03

Posts: 122

Re: Renamer: Inverted Serialize

you could just click on the name header to sort the names into the order you want and then they would serialize in the right way

eg. afer clicking on the name header you'd get this

009_07.jpg
008_06.jpg
007_05.jpg
006_04.jpg
005_03.jpg
004_02.jpg
003_01.jpg

and then serialize the names to get the result you want

- good idea though

Last edited by dloneranger (2006-08-05 18:11)

shonu

Member

Registered: 2006-08-05

Posts: 9

Re: Renamer: Inverted Serialize

well, true I must say. Sometimes the obvious is too obvious ,-)

But as you said, such option to be added maybe would make sense still.

Thanks for the tip!

Saves me some work now!

Shonu

dloneranger

Senior Member

From: Birmingham, UK

Registered: 2006-05-03

Posts: 122

Re: Renamer: Inverted Serialize

glad to be of help

your idea is a good one though, sometimes you may need one set of numbers to count backwards and one set forwards and in that case my suggestion wouldn't help

you could do it with pascalscript, but a checkbox would be a heck of a lot easier

i'm pretty sure dennis is very busy with work at the moment, but when he gets free i'm sure he'll consider your idea - he spends a huge amount of time adding other peoples ideas

Last edited by dloneranger (2006-08-05 19:00)

den4b

Administrator

From: den4b.com

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 3,440

Re: Renamer: Inverted Serialize

Good news

The 'step' parameter for Incremental Serialization can be negative, for backwards counting!
You can download the latest development version from here: ReNamerBeta.zip

That will solve the problem, won't it?

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