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File Naming convention for the G7

Started Oct 7, 2015 | Questions thread
John King
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Re: File Naming convention for the G7

Gidday Tom

Having four Olympus bodies that all use the same file naming convention, I rename all files when I upload to my PC.

The personal convention I have adopted is {cameramodel-}originalfilename.{type}.

If I edit a particular file, I add a suffix to the filename - e.g. _E, _Ew, _E_A2. So _107555.jpg would become E-30-_1075555_Ew.jpg.

When a camera goes over 9999, I add 1, 2 ... in front of the {filenumber} part, so that 101olymp/_1070001.orf becomes _10710001.orf.

Using this system, the full filename will always be unique, and the files will always collate properly in a folder. Every file I have always has the original camera filename embedded in it.

There is a great little program for PCs called PublicWare File Renamer that is great for the kinds of jobs when the upload program cannot do them.

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