Frame number variable appends extra 2 useless digits in name during Ingest

[Neil MacAvoy]

I upgraded to PM 4.6.4 a few months ago and ported over the same Ingest macros I had used for much older versions. I make use of either the {fnm4} or {fnum} variables as part of my renaming during Ingest. I just noticed that all of the photos I've ingested have an extra 2 characters (specifically "01") appended after the frame number, i.e. if the frame number was 5678 it now comes out 567801.  It's not fatal, but the characters aren't adding any value for me.

My ingest rename string is of the form: FOO_{iyr2}{imn0}{idy0}_{fnm4}

When I run this I get filenames like : FOO_100802_567801  whereas I used to get FOO_100802_5678.

This is running PM 4.6.4 on Win7 x64 on an Intel platform.   Is there some way I can truncate the last two useless characters during the ingest?

-Neil

[Kirk Baker]

Neil,

I upgraded to PM 4.6.4 a few months ago and ported over the same Ingest macros I had used for much older versions. I make use of either the {fnm4} or {fnum} variables as part of my renaming during Ingest. I just noticed that all of the photos I've ingested have an extra 2 characters (specifically "01") appended after the frame number, i.e. if the frame number was 5678 it now comes out 567801.  It's not fatal, but the characters aren't adding any value for me.

My ingest rename string is of the form: FOO_{iyr2}{imn0}{idy0}_{fnm4}

When I run this I get filenames like : FOO_100802_567801  whereas I used to get FOO_100802_5678.

This is running PM 4.6.4 on Win7 x64 on an Intel platform.   Is there some way I can truncate the last two useless characters during the ingest?

Please check to see if you have set the Renaming resolution (Files tab of the PM Preferences dialog) to 'Always append digits (01, 02, 03)'.  If so, just change it to one of the 'Append ... when needed' options.

-Kirk

[Neil MacAvoy]

Bingo, that was the fix.

Thanks for the quick reply, Kirk.

-Neil