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| ====== How to rename personal images ====== | ====== How to rename personal images ====== | ||
| - | ===== Example 1 ===== | + | **First, Why? I have renamed most of my images so they begin with 1986 to 2014 or any year that begins with a 19 or 20. I do not want to manually rename them again and put anther date year at the beginning.\\ |
| + | So I can use DropIt and in particular Date and Time abbreviations (for photos is recommended to use the "Taken" group of associations, for other files "Created" is a good solution).** | ||
| - | **First, Why? I have renamed most of my images so they begin with 1986 to 2014 or any year that begins with a 19 or 20. I do not want to manually rename them again and put anther date year at the beginning. So I can use DropIt and in particular Date and Time abbreviations (for photos is recommended to use the "Taken" group of associations, for other files "Created" is a good solution).** | + | \\ |
| + | ===== Example 1 ===== | ||
| - | **So, in this first example I want to Rename all jpgs and gifs that do not begin with 19 nor 20, to the Date and Time taken and keep the old file name and extension, too:** | + | **So, in this first example I want to Rename all jpg files that do not begin with 19 nor 20, to the Date and Time taken and keep the old file name and extension, too:** |
| - | Rules: ''*.jpg;*.gif/19*/20*'' | + | Rules: ''*.jpg/19*/20*'' |
| ''/'' in this example means "Not if it begins with".\\ | ''/'' in this example means "Not if it begins with".\\ | ||
| ''19*'' and ''20*'' means "anything following a 19 or 20".\\ | ''19*'' and ''20*'' means "anything following a 19 or 20".\\ | ||
| ''*.jpg'' means "any filename with a jpg extension" (AKA a "wildcard").\\ | ''*.jpg'' means "any filename with a jpg extension" (AKA a "wildcard").\\ | ||
| - | The entire rule says "work on any jpg and any gif /not if it begins with 19 and /not if it begins with 20". | + | The entire rule says "work on any jpg /not if it begins with 19 and /not if it begins with 20". |
| - | Destination: ''<nowiki>%YearTaken%%MonthTaken%%DayTaken%-%HourTaken%%MinuteTaken%%SecondTaken% %FileNameExt%</nowiki>'' | + | Destination: ''<nowiki>%YearTaken%%MonthTaken%%DayTaken%-%HourTaken%%MinuteTaken%%SecondTaken%_%FileNameExt%</nowiki>'' |
| - | The result would look like this: ''20140104-161834 Fruits in a Woven Basket.jpg'' | + | The result would look like this: ''20140104-161834_Fruits in a Woven Basket.jpg''\\ |
| + | Notice the dash between the date and time, and underscore after seconds. | ||
| Note that even if the original filename was ''18 Fruits in a Woven Basket.jpg'', the new filename would be | Note that even if the original filename was ''18 Fruits in a Woven Basket.jpg'', the new filename would be | ||
| - | ''20140104-161834 18 Fruits in a Woven Basket.jpg'' because 18 is not excluded, only 19 or 20. | + | ''20140104-161834_18 Fruits in a Woven Basket.jpg'' because 18 is not excluded, only 19 or 20. |
| Instead an original filename ''20 Fruits in a Woven Basket.jpg'' would be skipped in the rename task because of the 20. This is the reason why we used ''/19*/20*''.\\ | Instead an original filename ''20 Fruits in a Woven Basket.jpg'' would be skipped in the rename task because of the 20. This is the reason why we used ''/19*/20*''.\\ | ||
| You must rename it yourself or rename it to remove the 20 and run it through again to get the date and time and then edit to put it back in (obviously if you want to). | You must rename it yourself or rename it to remove the 20 and run it through again to get the date and time and then edit to put it back in (obviously if you want to). | ||
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| ===== Example 2 ===== | ===== Example 2 ===== | ||
| - | **Here, I want to Rename (only) all jpgs so they begin with the Date taken as YYYYMMDD, dash, dash, Time taken as HHMMSS, underscore, and keep the old filename and extension:** | + | **Here, I want to Rename all jpgs so they begin with the Date taken as YYYYMMDD, dash, dash, Time taken as HHMMSS, underscore, and keep the old filename and extension:** |
| Rules: ''*.jpg'' | Rules: ''*.jpg'' | ||
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| Notice the dash dash between date and time, and underscore after seconds. | Notice the dash dash between date and time, and underscore after seconds. | ||
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| ===== Example 3 ===== | ===== Example 3 ===== | ||
| - | **Here, I want to Rename (only) all gifs so they begin with the word PICTURE, underscore, Date taken as YYYYMMDD, @, Time taken as HHMMSS, underscore, and keep the old filename and extension:** | + | **Here, I want to Rename all gifs so they begin with the word PICTURE, underscore, Date taken as YYYYMMDD, @, Time taken as HHMMSS, underscore, and keep the old filename and extension:** |
| Rules: ''*.gif'' | Rules: ''*.gif'' | ||
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| It would look like this: ''PICTURE_20120704@134522_MVC000024.gif'' | It would look like this: ''PICTURE_20120704@134522_MVC000024.gif'' | ||
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| ===== Example 4 ===== | ===== Example 4 ===== | ||
| - | **In this example, I want to Rename (only) all gifs so they begin with the word PICTURE, underscore, Date taken as YYYYMMDD, @, Time taken as HHMMSS, underscore, use USER INPUT while looking at picture, space, and keep the old filename and extension:** | + | **In this example, I want to Rename all gifs so they begin with the word PICTURE, underscore, Date taken as YYYYMMDD, @, Time taken as HHMMSS, underscore, use USER INPUT while looking at picture, space, and keep the old filename and extension:** |
| Rules: ''*.gif'' | Rules: ''*.gif'' | ||
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