Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them
On 06/10/07 11:15, H.S. wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
The way that I would do it is:
As you view an image in one window, use exiv2 in another window to add
(or change) the exif timestamp.
It would require extremely huge amount of time -- doing this by hand for
every file and all.
With bash and the "up arrow", it doesn't seem to me that this would
take a lot of time.
Also, the jpegs do not have an exiv2 header in them
(at least not that I know of; scanned from negatives), but I would
suppose it is easy to add an empty header via a shell script.
:)
Remember, even though Linux has GUI, most "Unix people" don't
reflexively go for the GUI solution.
(Then, after doing that to all the files, I would use exiv2 to rename
them based upon the timestamp. But that's just me.)
I don't know is MS Windows "resets" the file order when you log off or
change directories thus forcing you not to be able to do anything else
in Explorer until you complete that task, but the method I propose
definitely does not force you to keep that window open the whole time.
Well, how I get around this problem is to distribute the images in a
number of folders (around 20 in my case) based on the time-line (or
event) once. This is done by drag and drop using the thumbnail view.
Clever.
If it helps, Nautilus has a thumbnail viewer. (As does, presumably,
Konq.)
gqview is also *perfect* for such a task.
That way I just have to sort contents of one folder at a time (involving
around 20~60 or so images). This makes the problem much more tractable
in Windows.
It seems to me that this is a messy problem no matter which OS you use.
Within that one folder, I drag and drop the images into
their proper order and then rename them (they get renamed in the order I
had placed them) so that they have a name something like event_nnnn.jpeg
where nnnn is a sequence starting from 0001.
Once you get them renamed to event_hhmmss.jpeg, a script can rename
them to event_nnnn.jpeg, if you want.
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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