howto:rename_personal_images
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| ====== How to rename personal images ====== | ====== How to rename personal images ====== | ||
| - | **First, Why? I have renamed most of my images so they begin with 1986 to 2014 or any year that begins with a 19 or 20. I do not want to manually rename them again and put anther date year at the beginning.\\ | + | First, Why? I have renamed most of my images so they begin with 1986 to 2014 or any year that begins with a 19 or 20. I do not want to manually rename them again and put anther date year at the beginning. |
| - | So I can use DropIt and in particular Date and Time abbreviations (for photos is recommended to use the "Taken" group of associations, for other files "Created" is a good solution).** | + | |
| + | So I can use DropIt and in particular Date and Time abbreviations (for photos is recommended to use the "Taken" group of associations, for other files "Created" is a good solution). | ||
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| ===== Example 1 ===== | ===== Example 1 ===== | ||
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| Instead an original filename ''20 Fruits in a Woven Basket.jpg'' would be skipped in the rename task because of the 20. This is the reason why we used ''/19*/20*''.\\ | Instead an original filename ''20 Fruits in a Woven Basket.jpg'' would be skipped in the rename task because of the 20. This is the reason why we used ''/19*/20*''.\\ | ||
| - | You must rename it yourself or rename it to remove the 20 and run it through again to get the date and time and then edit to put it back in (obviously if you want to). | + | You must then rename it yourself it to remove the 20 and then run it through again to get the date and time and then edit to put the '20' back into the filename (obviously if you want to). |
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| ===== Example 2 ===== | ===== Example 2 ===== | ||
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| It would look like this: ''<nowiki>201303115--093304_DSC00043.jpg</nowiki>''\\ | It would look like this: ''<nowiki>201303115--093304_DSC00043.jpg</nowiki>''\\ | ||
| Notice the dash dash between date and time, and underscore after seconds. | Notice the dash dash between date and time, and underscore after seconds. | ||
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| ===== Example 3 ===== | ===== Example 3 ===== | ||
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| It would look like this: ''PICTURE_20120704@134522_MVC000024.gif'' | It would look like this: ''PICTURE_20120704@134522_MVC000024.gif'' | ||
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| ===== Example 4 ===== | ===== Example 4 ===== | ||
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| It would look like this: ''PICTURE_20120704@134522_Betty at the Beach MVC000024.gif'' | It would look like this: ''PICTURE_20120704@134522_Betty at the Beach MVC000024.gif'' | ||
| - | The Magic DropIt Word ''%UserInput%'' pops up a window on screen so the user can input words accurately to include them into the renaming of the image ''MVC000024''. The user in this example typed ''Betty at the Beach''. Looks accurate because the date of the photo is July 4th at 1:45pm. | + | The Magic DropIt Word ''%UserInput%'' pops up a window on screen so the user can input words accurately to include them into the renaming of the image ''MVC000024''. The user in this example typed ''Betty at the Beach''. Looks accurate because the date of the photo is July 4th at 1:45pm. |
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