Well, to my surprise, I just opened one of these
generic file folders in iPhoto and imported it. The images were
grouped by subject without regard to numerical order in the folder.
That would help a lot for batch renaming. No keywords, I am afraid. I
am not that organized yet. I am going to try the same thing in
Lightroom and Aperture and see what I get. Thanks for suggesting this;
it should speed things up a lot.
Don
mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Well something like Lightroom, Aperture or Bibble can view large
numbers of files like a contact sheet, then get them all in like
folders without having to open each and every file. Should deal with
any of the formats you mentioned and then some. Once they are in the
same folders ect you can rename them in a batch process all at one
time. The exif data should still be there, and I think they can search
by keywords IF you had them keyworded and not just by file name. You
maybe even be able to get by with Bridge that comes with photoshop.
Though its mainly a browser, it can do some things but if I had as many
images as it sounds like you have to cope with, Id pay the money.
IF you have to rekeyword them it will be worse. Now you can
batch process that too I think, but that may need more. Some images
have a need for more than others, and you would probably need to go
back through them quickly, but the batch processing would be a good
place to start.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: New but old thread
From: Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, January 16, 2010 9:02 am
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Essentially that is what I am doing, Mark.
Manually. Unless the software can read EXIF data and sort accordingly
I don't think it will help. I am still looking for order amongst all
the "file0001, file0015" sort of labels. I haven't identified any yet
but I am just getting into it. One of the headaches is that the images
have been sorted into JPEG, TIFF, NEF, CR2, PSD etc. That separates
jpeg and RAW files that normally displayed together.
Thanks for the suggestion. If you have any program specifically in
mind, let me know.
mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
Big time bummer, but could some of the new management
software make it easier??? Sort to folders then batch process???
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: New but old thread
From: Lara Ashby <lonestarcadillac@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, January 16, 2010 2:12 am
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bummer!
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:24:00 -0600
From: droberts@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: New but old thread
To: photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Just relating a situation many of you may have
faced. I backed up all photo files to 2 different 500 GB hard drives
but never made a disk -mistake, I know - and I never used the drives at
the same time they were always turned off until I needed a photo. A
couple of weeks ago I accessed a photo on the older of the drives and
had problems. I assumed that drive was biting the dust - it had become
unreadable - so I turned it off and turned on the new drive. Shortly I
ran into problems there as well. Making the story shorter, my computer
went berserk and the drive interfaces somehow corrupted both drives. I
replace the computer, yes, a Mac, and tried to recover images. No
luck. I was able to format the newer drive and reuse it. I bought
Disk Doctor Image Recovery software and ran it on the remaining drive.
The good news is that it worked and recovered most if not all of the
images; the bad news is that they are in generic files with generic
file names and the only way I can use them is to examine each file,
thousands, and then rename and resort. At least I got them back but
this will occupy me for some time.
Don
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