File Naming convention for the G7

stokey wrote:

Guy Parsons wrote:

Of course if you do the No.Reset at any time then the camera goes back to 100_PANA and starts its life all over again.

No, "No. reset" always steps to the next folder unless the current folder is empty.

Sorry, my total brain snap, of course you are right. Too many other things happening in my head at the moment.

Out today but will play again later with my LX3 to get it all straight in my head again. Maybe I was muddling it with the Reset which may wipe.

But then, I did get the camera to reset to 100_PANA from a No. Reset, so I'll check what I did again later. Puzzling.

Aha, maybe it was because I did a No. Reset on a freshly formatted card with no shots on it, then the camera gets all confused and starts at 100_PANA again as it did not see the expected 108_PANA or whatever we were up to on the card before format.

So the camera has a conditional memory of what folders it has used, and it's very easy to upset that memory.

I have been caught out by this empty folder "feature" before - viz: I copied all the files from nnn_PANA to my PC, deleted all the images in nnn_PANA then did a "No. reset" thinking to step on the file names to nnn+1_PANA, but no the camera didn't step the folder and images were stored with nnn_PANA file names duplicating those on my PC.

Yes, you did it backwards, the No. Reset (and one shot?) needs to be done before deleting the images is my guess.

I still use MSDOS occasionally (running under Windows) for stuff like this, batch files can be very powerful and time saving, also the reason I still use Irfanview.

Bob

I need to dig out my MS-DOS 6 book and start reading. I used to be good with it but it's all terribly faded now. Maybe old-timers disease is kicking in.

Hey, I should retreat back to my Olympus world, that seems easier......

Regards...... Guy