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Offline danfoto

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Help needed with folder and file naming please
« on: February 10, 2011, 12:00:34 AM »
Running PM 4.6.6 on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.

I'm trying to set up PM's "ingest" so that we can maintain the same folder and file numbering convention which we had when using Downloader Pro, but I'm stuck at two points.

I want PM to copy the ingested files to a folder named with the date, but in the format yyyy-mm-dd. If I use "into dated folder only" from the menu under "Copy photos", the folder is named yyyymmdd without the hyphens. Is there a way of making it name the new folder with the hyphens?

Similarly, for "Rename ingested photos as", I assumed I'd need to use {date}_{seqn} but that gives me files named in the format dd-mm-yyyy_xxx.jpg. How might I get them to be renamed yyyy-mm-dd_xxx.jpg?

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Re: Help needed with folder and file naming please
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2011, 12:09:02 AM »
try using the variables {year4}-{month0}-{day0}
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Re: Help needed with folder and file naming please
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2011, 12:47:43 AM »
Thank you for that, sir.  It works, but seems to slow down the ingest bigtime. 

Maybe my best plan is to stick with the current renaming on ingestion then rename outside PM downstream ...

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Re: Help needed with folder and file naming please
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2011, 06:01:44 AM »
Thank you for that, sir.  It works, but seems to slow down the ingest bigtime. 

Maybe my best plan is to stick with the current renaming on ingestion then rename outside PM downstream ...

It shouldn't cause any delay whatsoever.  What kind of difference in speed are you experiencing?

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Re: Help needed with folder and file naming please
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2011, 09:51:46 AM »
Kirk, before I check that for you, where exactly should I be placing the {year4}-{month0}-{day0} ?

I need to be sure I'm not doing something seriously stupid ...

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Re: Help needed with folder and file naming please
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2011, 10:15:47 AM »
attached is a screenshot from my ingest-dialog where the file-renaming and the folder is set.

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Re: Help needed with folder and file naming please
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2011, 11:04:04 AM »
SK-Foto, thank you very much indeed for your help.  The problem is solved, although I have no idea what I did wrong earlier to get the slow ingest ...


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Re: Help needed with folder and file naming please
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2011, 11:05:30 AM »
glad, it works...

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