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Over the years my photos have been taken with a variety of cameras and thus have a variety of filename conventions. Doing the renaming during the import process seems to make sense at this point. At that point I may want to rename many, if not most, of them. Once I am more comfortable using the program I will begin importing the remainder of my photos, (many, many thousands) which I currently still view and edit using Picasa. I am only beginning with Photoshop and only have a small fraction of my photos imported so far. (although slow transfer rate) When it comes to photography I am strictly a hobbyist and take my photos with my iPhone or Canon Elph 340HS. I do not have a 'card reader' on my computer, but I presume I could use my camera connected via USB in the same way. I have not actually used the PSE 'downloader' function yet but it looks to be useful for renaming files as you suggest. The synced photos I get in my computer can be copied to a camera card and nicely reimported into my standard date hierarchy, and renamed flexibly if I need to (not necessary for me, as stressed by Greg_S). This is frequent when I get photos from Dropbox for my camera or from Google Photos for my wife. Lets say I want to import files from different dates which are already on my computer, not in a card. I am happy with the automatic 'advanced' feature which allows to create a date based folder tree (my choice is '2018 12 23') while renaming files if needed. I have succeeded to rename all files in a folder tree like this and to get them reconnected, but I suspect this will become tricky with a big folder tree.Īnother suggestion which is useful in some cases is to use the downloader.

Obviously, this disconnects all the files in the catalog(s) they are in.

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You can use more flexible free tools like FastStone or Irfanview to rename your files with various templates, even overwriting the files in their original folder tree.

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)īeware, never try this without doing a full backup first! However, it's easy, quick and safe to rename files via another third-party tool and to reconnect immediately if you are in a single subfolder. I'd like to suggest that the organizer has the ability to 'reconnect' renamed files (with a bit of luck. So, exporting is adequate most of the time. The main reason to rename is to be able to keep your custom sort order defined in albums for use in another catalog or third-party software, like slideshow editor.

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The editor 'process multiple files' has more renaming templates, but the only flexible renaming tool is the downloader, when you download from camera or card reader.

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The organizer itself has only the renaming with a common starting text string plus a sort order. I used Picasa face tags and albums as my 'structure', neither of which can be exported, so all that work was lost! That is why I am switching to Photoshop and also why I want a robust file and folder naming scheme, in case I have to move on again. Secondly, I previously invested a lot of time and effort using Picasa only to have Google discontinue supporting it, which can only mean some day it will not work at all. I do use tagging and albums within Photoshop and it works well.as long as I am working in Photoshop. (To enable me to easily find the original hard copy in the future, if necessary) I started scanning old photos almost 10 years ago and did not pay much attention to filenames in the beginning, now I want to retroactively commonize my filename structure so individual photo files will be identifiable by filename even if the original file has been moved or copies have been exported and shared with others. The primary one is to maintain the original location and order of scanned photos removed from old albums. I have several reasons to want descriptive and sequential names for photo files within folders.