Sam the Man <Sam@manmail.com> wrote in news:141220090919449103%
Sam@manmail.com:
> In article <Xns9CE04F1CA5F33MrD.email.org@127.0.0.1>, MrD
> <MrD@email.org> wrote:
>
> Roger, I make this small suggestion to you but not to others, because
> you actually care. Some others do not.
>
> Some photographers/webmasters/posters don't take the trouble to
change
> the default name given by their camera to their images. That leads to
> ten thousand pictures of a variety of different girls titled "IMG-
xxx"
> or "PIC-xxx" or "DSC-xxx" or a few other variations. A collector then
> has a swarm of files whose names that bear no resemblance to the
model
> concerned.
>
> Posters would not be inconvenienced much by running their files
through
> a batch renamer before posting and it would surly be appreciated by
> collectors.
>
> I don't know about the Windoze world but, for Mac users, (as you all
> should be :-) a useful utility for doing this is Name Mangler
> <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27090>
>
> I can see some posters suggesting "well, why don't _you_ change the
> names, you lazy moron" but what to do if a collector has an auto
> download happening? A day later he has a folder full of
>
> DSC-001.jpg
> DSC-002.jpg
> DSC-003.jpg
> DSC-004.jpg
>
>
> you get the idea. There is now no way of knowing the original names
of
> each series. (Unless each image is branded. And, even then, it's a
huge
> job (compared with the above simple suggestion to posters) for a
> collector to manually sort all files into a bunch of different
folders
> then rename each.
>
> Yes, I know it's not cool to make requests or suggestions to posters.
gratitude
> and a big thank-you. I hope the suggestion, being such a small one,
can
> be looked at in the warm spirit in which it's given. It can then be
> adopted with minimum hassle or rejected with a dismissive wave of the
> hand but still a smile on the face.
>
I did rename the photos as you will see.
Gallery00
Gallery01
Gallery02.... etc etc
I posted them that way too - so, i don't see the problem bro?
Thanks for the suggestion, but i allready know the problem about
hundreds of files with the same name, thats why i renamed them.
There must be something wrong with your downloader if you don't see the
correct file names.
MrD
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