File Naming convention for the G7

Guy Parsons wrote:

So here's the real way to increase folder numbers properly up to where you need them.

1. Freshly formatted card in and take one shot (that should preserve the folder number).
2. Setup Menu - No. Reset - Yes - OK
3. Take a shot, a new higher number folder is created.
4. Go back to step 2 and keep looping until the folder number is up where you need it.

So it's still not easy, but easier than my page on the LX3, that needs a re-write.

If you do step 2 on the freshly formatted card without a shot on it then the file system goes back to 100-0001, - well, it does on my LX3.

To see the folder number created then review the shot and see on the right the number during this exercise ..... 101-0001, next would be 102-0001, then 103-0001 as you keep looping the above instructions.

Don't know if this will help clarify things, but if I remember rightly, the above method proposed by Guy is the one I've used in the past to increase the folder number for one of my Panasonic cameras to avoid the clash of file numbers.

Each of those new folders created in step 3 takes the file numbers another 999 forward. So for the OP's G7 camera, using a separate newly formatted card, the procedure should be repeated from step 2 until the folder number (the first 3 digits) is well beyond the number (108) which is currently showing on his G3.

And keep those cards separate for each camera.

[Or maybe there's an easier way!]