I often use a free program called Advanced Renamer (I use it as a portable installation & have a copy on a USB to help on others PCs). I've tried a few 'find duplicate/similar photo' freeware programs, but those weren't any help.Īny suggestions? Maybe a good pay software program that's very good at finding similar photos. That helped some, but still too many out of order to manually re-organize/rename. I changed the sort order to 'date', then renamed. I initially tried 'Ctrl+z' with no success.
Other programs (Nikon Transfer) have some renaming abilities too, but not the detailed tokens I need to discriminate between cameras and subseconds. (Also off my working SSD onto long-term storage HDD).ĭownloaderPro costs about $35 I think. When done, I use Lightroom to move the folder structure out of the downloaderpro folder into a permanent home. Once imported, I use Lightroom to rate, cull and process the images.
The new images can be saved into new folder structures, cleaning up messes from the past. I've used the software to batch-rename tens of thousands of old images, cell phone images, videos, etc. I have also in the past included "image number" and "camera serial #", for situations when I used Nikon V1 or V2 (no subsecond included in EXIF, and can shoot many frames per second) and when my wife and I had identical underwater cameras. This discriminates between multiple cameras used for the same trip/event. This makes things a bit easier to find within a year.Ĭamera model: there is a token that picks up the camera model used to create the image, such as D810 or D850. My folder structure is \downloaderpro\year\jobcode\date\. Job code is often a location and year, such as Hawaii2018. I enter a job code for each batch of images. Job code: not part of the file name, but part of a folder structure for storing the files. The subsecond field is there to discriminate amount images taken faster than 1 per second. The yymmdd part should be obvious - year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds - and subsecond. I want all images to sort by date automatically. The same procedure can be used simply by pointing to a folder on a hard drive instead of a card. There are a number of naming elements to it, and you might like some of the concepts.įirst, I rename all images (and rotate jpgs) when I ingest the images from a card. I have a system that avoids conflicts and automatically sorts by date. One which guarantees no file name conflicts. You need a viable naming scheme to do this. As long as there is EXIF data in them, this is easy to do. Several times I've had to batch renamed folders of images. I've been using it for years because of its renaming capabilities.
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