Reset the Photo Numbering in my Camera

[Karner]

I've done this in the past, but now it's not working.

My photos currently have a number DSC08872. And the next one will be labeled DSC08873. I want to change this.

I want to reset my camera so that the numbering will start over and the next photo will be labeled DSC00001.

Which item do I choose in the TOOLBOX menu and how do I proceed from there?

Many thanks,

- Bob

Sony RX100 vii

Sony a7 iii

 

[Guy Parsons]

I've done this in the past, but now it's not working.

My photos currently have a number DSC08872. And the next one will be labeled DSC08873. I want to change this.

I want to reset my camera so that the numbering will start over and the next photo will be labeled DSC00001.

Which item do I choose in the TOOLBOX menu and how do I proceed from there?

Many thanks,

- Bob

Sony RX100 vii

Sony a7 iii

DSC-RX100M7 | Help Guide | File/Folder Settings (still image)

You have the option of causing the file numbers to increase "forever", but at 9999 it goes back to 0001 in a fresh folder on the card.

Or you can have the file number start at 0001 each time you use a fresh card or format the card.

 

[sybersitizen]

I want to reset my camera so that the numbering will start over and the next photo will be labeled DSC00001.

Which item do I choose in the TOOLBOX menu

I doubt that you'll have to do anything in the menu. It's probably already set to [Series].

and how do I proceed from there?

1. Take at least one shot on a memory card.
2. Put the card in a computer and look at it.
3. Choose the most recent file you shot.
4. Using your computer, rename the last four digits of that file to 9999.
5. Return the card to the camera.
6. You might want to rebuild the camera's database, but I think that's optional.
7. Take a new shot and look at the result. It should have the file number 0001.
8. The new shot might be in a new folder, and that might not be what you want.
9. If you don't want two folders on the card, format it in-camera (after backing up any important files, of course). That should eliminate the extra folder on the card going forward.

 

[JeremyB2]

I too like to start afresh with DSC00001 after transferring files to my PC. Assuming that the RX100 VII menu is the same as the RX100 VI menu, first of all make sure that in ‘Toolbox Setup 5 > File number’ you have selected ‘Reset’.

When you transfer files to your computer they will appear as a SDXC folder, followed by a drive letter, in my case (D. Within that folder there is a subfolder called DCIM which contains the files. Once I have transferred the files to where I want them to be, I delete the DCIM folder before removing the memory card. This will ensure that the next time you create images they will start off again as DSC00001. Format the card every now and again bearing in mind that anything you may have saved in memory recall M1 to M4 will be lost.

As you are probably aware, you can rename the ‘DSC’ section of your files with letters of your choosing which can be helpful when using two Sony cameras as you are.

This info has been pretty much covered previously, but I hope it helps.

 

[Ab S]

I want to reset my camera so that the numbering will start over and the next photo will be labeled DSC00001.

Which item do I choose in the TOOLBOX menu

I doubt that you'll have to do anything in the menu. It's probably already set to [Series].

and how do I proceed from there?

1. Take at least one shot on a memory card.
2. Put the card in a computer and look at it.
3. Choose the most recent file you shot.
4. Using your computer, rename the last four digits of that file to 9999.
5. Return the card to the camera.
6. You might want to rebuild the camera's database, but I think that's optional.
7. Take a new shot and look at the result. It should have the file number 0001.
8. The new shot might be in a new folder, and that might not be what you want.
9. If you don't want two folders on the card, format it in-camera (after backing up any important files, of course). That should eliminate the extra folder on the card going forward.

Sorry to misuse the topic a bit: I have a similar question, but exactly the opposite: I am approaching 9999 on my RX10 (mk1, original). Is there a way to continue counting beyond 9999?

Thanks,

 

[sybersitizen]

I have a similar question, but exactly the opposite: I am approaching 9999 on my RX10 (mk1, original). Is there a way to continue counting beyond 9999?

No, it will always roll over to 0001 after 9999 is reached.

However ... some recent Sony cameras allow you to customize the first three characters of the file name. If you manually change any of those after shooting each group of 9999 photos you can avoid having any duplicated file names generated for a very, very long time.

 

[Guy Parsons]

Sorry to misuse the topic a bit:

Not misusing, it's a good question.

I have a similar question, but exactly the opposite: I am approaching 9999 on my RX10 (mk1, original). Is there a way to continue counting beyond 9999?

No, the file number rolls back to 0001 after 9999 but into a fresh folder on the card.

When you download the numbers you see will go "9998, 9999, 0001, 0002, ....".

Awkward online manual for the RX10, can't find anywhere that says that the first 3 characters can be edited like the later cameras can do.

The question from me is what do you see as your file names when you download?

On my later firmware RX100M6 I have renamed the first 3 characters so I can sort my files from my wife's if needed.

When I review the images in the camera I see on the camera's screen 100-5009, 100-5010 today for the first two on a fresh card.

When I look at the card in the notebook with FastStone Viewer or download them, I see RXA05009, RXA05010 as the two filenames. My wife's camera uses RXBxxxxx naming.

Not that I am about to experiment but I suspect that Sony might use that leading 0 so you may actually see your downloaded file name roll over from xxx09999 to xxx10001.

Obviously you will soon find out. Let us know.

I avoid any file number clashes by downloading all cameras into day dated folders and add a bit of text later, that way the rollover back to 0001 with any or all of my cameras is well separated by date, weeks, months or years apart in various cameras.

If for some strange reason I do need to gather a bunch of photos from different times then I am usually pushing those into date order in the new folder they are copied to and then renaming them with FastStone so now they would appear as 0010-RXA05009, 0020-RXA05010 etc.

The added 0010-, 0020-, etc prefix sequence allows me to later move things around or slip new images in as I find them later, that way the final sequence may be 0010, 0011, 0012, 0020, 0030, 0031, 0040, and so on. The size of that prefix is made to suit the likely number of images in the special folder, for say a TV slide show where the TV always seems to follow file name order so the numbered prefix does the job.

As for my folder dates and naming, it looks like this....



Gradually finding and adding text to all months and years that have significant trips or events in them, so "2009" later becomes "2009 Japan" and month "04" becomes "04 Japan". That way quick flicks through with any file exploring finds Japan or Taiwan or whatever I'm looking for, simple Windows searches for "Japan" also finds the folders.

I got burnt early on by a keyword type database that failed so dropped back to a totally Windows friendly and any program friendly folder naming system. I do not rename any actual file names, except extracted copies for those slide shows or whatever.

Maybe too much information, but something in there may help.

 

[Ab S]

Thanks! Like Guy I am using the Windows format for each day of picture taking: yyyy-mm-dd subject. For each day I process the DSC0xxxx. ARW images in Capture One (or preprocess first in DxO PureRAW) I have the output image files named as DSC0xxxx RX10 C1.jpg

I will have also have a look in the RX10 manual to see if something can be changed to the DSC0 but most likely the answer is negative (like you already said).

So I will have a look what the options are in Capture One to change the 0 into 1 for the output files.

I will let you know!