Rename your Digital Camera’s files to pictures’s Date and Time


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I take tons of pictures with my digital camera and of course I rename nearly none of them. So if you do the same thing as I you could end up with a file naming mess, possibly deleting files with the same file names.

But all is not lost your digital camera has its own built in clock which dates the file it saves inside the file if its a Exif supported camera, but when it comes to naming the file typically your digital camera will use a sequencial order making it possible to duplicate file names from different SD cards or different cameras.

NameExif via Shivaranjan takes the date and exact time found in the file (Exif) and renames the file to show when the file was taken. It grabs the time right down to the second making a truly unique file name that won’t over-write other files. You can also add a prefix or suffix at the beginning or end of the file.  So let’s say that the pictures you are importing are from your Florida trip, now you can change the file name to Florida.2007.12.25-12.30.34.JPG which is way more meaningful than IMG_3242.JPG.

Check it out

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January 14, 2008 | Filed Under Freeware 

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5 Responses to “Rename your Digital Camera’s files to pictures’s Date and Time”

  1. Lordvader on MyAvatars 0.2 January 28th, 2008 3:37 pm

    Very useful utility

  2. Travis on MyAvatars 0.2 February 11th, 2008 8:54 pm

    Brilliant. My photos are a mess, too.

  3. seo.contest.2008 on MyAvatars 0.2 February 17th, 2008 2:01 pm

    i have been looking for this.. that will rename or arrange my wallpapers filenames… i will try this one..

  4. Syahid A. on MyAvatars 0.2 March 4th, 2008 7:01 pm

    Nice tool. I\’ve been using IrfanView to batch rename all this while.

  5. Saverio on MyAvatars 0.2 August 2nd, 2008 2:30 pm

    For those of you that uses Linux :-)
    I wrote a tiny tiny script that does the same
    http://saverio.bolognani.googlepages.com/renamingyourphotos

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